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. “But who are these men of good will? Only those who happen to agree with us for the moment.”
  2. “Good feeling, honor, truthfulness are merely false ideas. They are liable at any moment to get you into a mess.”
  3. “I think it will be clear that in order to read the man’s mind, you must put away from you anything like emotion. You are there to kill him efficiently, and you should practice the detachment of the surgeon, who does not wring his hands and wail when he sees the patient on the operating table.”
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  5. “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.”