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

“If I were a machine made in Germany, I have no doubt that I should shout, ‘Hoch der Kaiser’ whenever there was a slight lull in the conversation.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “We have the most artistic photographs dating back not so long ago of Mr. Roosevelt with his arm around the Kaiser’s neck. Immediately before the war Mr. Herbert G. Wells published a book in which he said that Germany was the one country in the world worth living in. German science, German manners, German morals, German everything was the only love of Mr. Herbert G. Wells. No sooner did war break out than he published another book to prove that Germans were raving maniacs hypnotized by Nietzsche.”
  2. “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.”
  3. “If we conceive of each individual (with his heredity and environment complete) as a machine constructed to serve one definite purpose and one only, we relieve ourselves at once from all difficulty about moral judgment.”
  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. “The question is whether man is a savage brute like a tiger, or a dear little caterpillar whose highest aim in life is to look like a dead twig. It depends very largely as far as I can make out whether one happens to be a vegetarian or otherwise.”