Pax Hominibus Bonae Voluntatis by Aleister Crowley in International, Dec 1917.

“Herbert Spencer has shown that the animal which adapts himself to his circumstances is going to survive longer than those who resist their environment. Away then with all considerations of principle!” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “We reply, ‘Certainly not, you are monsters. On with the revel!'”
  2. "We reply, 'Certainly not, you are monsters. On with the revel!'"
  3. “But who are these men of good will? Only those who happen to agree with us for the moment.”
  4. “Now, as explained above, biology counsels adaptation to circumstance. We shall save ourselves knocks if we do what the other man tells us without any grumbling. We may go so far perhaps as to say ‘brute’ or ‘pig’ when he is not within an ear shot, but even that is a little dangerous, tending rather to the calamity of thinking for ourselves.”
  5. “So long, then, as we are true to ourselves, it is as with William Schwenck Gilbert, ‘You are right and I am right and everyone of us is right.'”