When someone behaves like a beast, he says, "After all, one is only human." But when he is treated like a beast, he says, "After all, one is human.

War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

—Karl Kraus

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

—Karl Kraus

A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit.

—Karl Kraus

To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation"—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

—Aldous Huxley

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

—Oscar Wilde

The great thieves punish the little ones.

—Thomas Fuller

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Fake food—I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut—is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

—Julia Child