But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect. All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man. For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong. Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.
Women have simple tastes.
They can get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-penciling the bad spelling of God.