As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on … - Aleister Crowley

A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not.

همگان، به هوش باشید: هستی، لذت خالص است. اندوه تنها سایه ایست؛ می گذرد و نیست می گردد و تنها هستی باقی می ماند.

"So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen, whose wages would stop at the first sign of disagreement with the bosses. For the rest, deafen the whole world with senseless clamour. Mechanize everything! Give nobody a chance to think. Standardize "amusement." The louder and more cacophonous, the better! Brief intervals between one din and the next can be filled with appeals, repeated 'till hypnotic power gives them the force of orders, to buy this or that product of the "Business men" who are the real power in the State. Men who betray their country as obvious routine.

The history of the past thirty years is eloquent enough, one would think. What these sodden imbeciles never realize is that a living organism must adapt itself intelligently to its environment, or go under at the first serious change of circumstance."