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

“We must do as Mr. Pickwick said, ‘Shout with the largest crowd.’ One of the most dangerous things that we can do is to think for ourselves.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “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!”
  2. “There is no warrant to suppose that Christ was any kind of a Pacifist. On the contrary, he not only prophesied the most terrible wars and disasters to humanity, which, by the theory, he had absolute power to stop, but he threatened eternal damnation to the great mass of men. Billy Sunday’s presentation of Christ is a perfectly scriptural one.”
  3. “It is evident from these shining examples that our humanitarianism, like all other forms of thought, is strictly limited by time and space.”
  4. “These words, ‘Peace to men of good will,’ have been mistranslated, ‘Good will towards men.’ Christ said that he did not come to bring peace, but a sword; that he would divide mother from son and father from daughter, careless of the effect of such remarks upon the feelings of Dr. Sigmund Freud.”
  5. “Good feeling, honor, truthfulness are merely false ideas. They are liable at any moment to get you into a mess.”