Might is Right - Highlights/quotes during reading

December 29, 2020 – page 20
 9.62% "“Thus all the people of the earth are helpless, seeing those that lead are blind.”
Mankind is aweary, aweary of its sham prophets, its demagogues and its statesmen. It crieth out for kings and heroes. It demands a nobility — a nobility that cannot be hired with money, like slaves or beasts of burden"
December 29, 2020 – page 20
 9.62% "A man may keep every one of the Ten Commandments and yet
remain a fool all the days of his life. He may obey every written law of the
land, and yet be a caitiff and a slave. He may ‘love Jesus,’ delight in the
golden rule and yet continue to the hour of his death, a failure and
dependent. Truly the way to hell is by fulfilling the commandments of
God"
December 29, 2020 – page 21
 10.1% "In actual operation Nature is cruel and merciless to men, as to all
other beings. Let a tribe of human animals live a rational life, Nature will
smile upon them and their posterity; but let them attempt to organize an
unnatural mode of existence an equality elysium, and thy will be punished
even to the point of extermination."
December 29, 2020 – page 22
 10.58% "Religions and constitutions and all arbitrary principles, every mortal theorem, must be deliberately put to the question. No moral dogma must be taken for granted — no standard of measurement deified. There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are all the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy."
December 30, 2020 – page 23
 11.06% "Freemen should never regulate their conduct by the suggestions or dicta of others, for when they do so, they are no longer free. No man ought to obey any contract, written or implied, except he himself has given his personal and formal adherence thereto, when in a state of mental maturity and unrestrained liberty. It is only slaves that are born into contracts, signed and sealed by their progenitors. ..."
December 30, 2020 – page 26
 12.5% "Indeed the masses of mankind are but the sediment from which all the more valuable elements have been long ago distilled. They are totally incapable of real freedom, and if it were granted to them, they would straightway vote themselves a master, or a thousand masters within twenty-four hours. Mastership is right — Mastership is natural — Mastership is eternal"
December 30, 2020 – page 27
 12.98% "Human rights and wrongs are not determined by Justice, but by Might. Disguise it as you may, the naked sword is still kingmaker and king-breaker, as of yore. All other theories are lies and — lures"
December 30, 2020 – page 31
 14.9% "As far as Sociology is concerned, we must either abandon our reason
or abandon Christ."
December 30, 2020 – page 31
 14.9% "The sickly humanitarian ethics, so eloquently rayed forth by Jesus Christ and his superstitious successors, in ancient Judea, and throughout the moribund Roman empire, are generally accepted in Anglo-Saxondom as the very elixir of immortal wisdom, the purest, wisest, grandest, most incontrovertible of all ‘divine revelations,’ of occult thaumaturgies...."
December 30, 2020 – page 32
 15.38% "Why is it that the suggested social solutions promulgated by Jesus, Peter, Paul, James, and other Asiatic cataleptics, are accepted so meekly by us, upon trust? If these men were anything, they were crude socialist reformers with mis-shapen souls, preachers of ‘a new heaven, and a new earth,’ that is to say, demagogues — politicians-of-the-slums; and out of the slums, nothing that is noble can ever be born."
December 30, 2020 – page 33
 15.87% "“If we only lived as Christ lived, what a beautiful world this would be,” saith all thoughtless ones. If we lived as Christ lived, there would be none of us left to live. He begat no children; he labored not for his bread; he possessed neither house nor home; he merely talked. Consequently, he must have existed on charity or have stolen bread. ..."
December 30, 2020 – page 34
 16.35% "After permitting Christ to be butchered, the mob thereupon set him up as their Divinity and erected altars to his renown. Slaves, women, madmen, lepers, magdalenes, were the earliest Christians, and to this hour, women, children, slaves and lunatics are the raw material of the christian Church."
December 30, 2020 – page 34
 16.35% "Primitive Christianity cunningly appealed to the imagination of a world of superstitious slaves .... It organized them for the overthrow of Heroic Principles; and substituted for a genuine nobility based on battle-selection, a crafty theocracy founded upon priest-craft, hell-craft, alms-giving, politicalisms and all that is impure and subterranean"
December 30, 2020 – page 36
 17.31% "If men lived ‘like brothers’ and had no powerful enemies (neighbors) to contend with and surpass, they would rapidly lose all their best qualities; like certain oceanic birds that lose the use of their wings, because they do not have to fly from pursuing beasts of prey."
December 30, 2020 – page 42
 20.19% "Man is part and parcel ofthe animal kingdom and (notwithstanding Jefferson, Franklin, and Lincoln — Karl Marx, LaSalle, and Liebknecht — Christ, Robespierre, and Rousseau — Hyndman, Tennyson, and Mazzini — Dr. Alder, Bebel, George, and Isaiah — Bellamy, Gronlund, and W. T. Stead) he cannot escape from the draconic ordinances that despotically govern that kingdom and environ his being like an atmosphere on every side"
December 30, 2020 – page 46
 22.12% "During the whole course of human history, there is not upon record, one authentic instance wherein a subjugated people has ever regained property-holding Liberty, without first butchering its tyrants (or its tyrant’s armed slaves in battle,) thereafter confiscating to its own use the lands and realized property that previously had been in the possession of its defeated foes and masters."
December 30, 2020 – page 46
 22.12% "Jesus.. never said anything that had not been better said a thousand times before, by Dervishes, Spellbinders and Mahatmas.Neither did he do anything that had not previously been better done, by the jugglers and wonder-workers of Egypt,India and Assyria.Not a few of his ‘miracles’ are to this day, part of the ordinary stock-in-trade of fortune-telling gypsies, third-class strolling players, and charlatans in general"
December 30, 2020 – page 48
 23.08% "Christian-ism, originating in the despairful and fallacious philosophy of a Crucified Wanderer is now developed into an organized and world-wide conspiracy of Clericals, Politicals and Decadents directed en-masse; with Jesuitic cunning against all the primitive and Heroic Virtues."
December 30, 2020 – page 56
 26.92% "Every national appeal is now made, not to the Noblest and the Best, but to the riff-raff — the slave hordes — who possess less intelligence than night-owls. All that is brave, honorable, heroic is ignored tacitly, for fear of offending the deified Herd, ‘the Majority.’ ‘Equality of conditions’ is its debasing shibboleth and verily he who has temerity enough to spit upon Equality is liable to be horned to death."
December 30, 2020 – page 57
 27.4% "There are two methods whereby masterful, ambitious men may hold any population in a state of ordered subjectivity. The first and by far the most honorable method is through an irresistible and highly-trained standing army, ready to deploy anywhere...and sweep away all dangerous opposition. The second cheaper method is...to inoculate those intended to be exploited with some poisonous political soporific, superstition"
December 30, 2020 – page 64
 30.77% "How can citizens be honestly described as free and equal who are not, who never were ‘free and equal’ in any reasonable sense of the phrase? How can they be even considered men, whose whole lives are governed by cast-iron regulations; whose every movement is circumscribed and restrained by penal threats, even whose secret thoughts are in a constant state of silent repression?"
December 30, 2020 – page 66
 31.73% "But, Equality before the Law is all we mean, whimpers the everlasting sophist — the cunning liar! Let us see! By what rational method can any two litigants be placed in a position of unconditional ‘Equality before the Law?’ First of all, plaintiff and defendant always possess totally different physical and mental characteristics, different personal magnetisms, and — different sized bank balances"
December 30, 2020 – page 68
 32.69% "Although Equality (in any shape) has never been scientifically proven nor logically defended: nevertheless it passes from tongue to tongue, from brain to brain in current discussions for ‘gospel truth’ — just as clever counterfeit coins are passed unsuspectingly from hand to hand."
December 30, 2020 – page 69
 33.17% "The Equality superstition is tolerated by clear-seeing men, for one reason only. It assists them to govern the thoughts: and by governing the thoughts, to exploit the property, energy, and labor-force, of their soft- minded, good natured neighbors: who really believe it to be true — who think it, glad tidings of Great Joy."
December 30, 2020 – page 70
 33.65% "Aristocracy by birth rests upon an unalterable scientific basis of heredity and selection; but an aristocracy or money rests mainly upon bolts and bars, i.e. upon laws that may be abrogated at a moments notice."
December 30, 2020 – page 73
 35.1% "Hard, continuous, methodical labor, destroys courage, saps vitality, and demoralizes character. It tames and subdues men; just as it tames and subdues the wild steer or the young colt. Men who labor hard and continuously have no power to think. It requires all their vital force to keep their muscles in trim."
December 30, 2020 – page 79
 37.98% "The necessities of environment make of each man, the enemy or rival of other men... Where then does equality come in? It does not ‘come in’ at all. It is an idiotic myth. There must always be a substratum of victimized organisms. How could the tiger live if there were no lambs to devour? How could there be heroes if there were no slaves? How could there be great nations if there were no contemptible ones?"
December 30, 2020 – page 84
 40.38% "Beware the tongue that is smoothly hung, and never forget for one moment, that your greatest enemies upon earth, are those crafty courtiers who eloquently, cunningly flatter you, that they may first win your heart, and then skin you alive. The modern Mephistopheles is the soft-toned preacher in his pulpit, — the editorial sophist in his net-work of lies, — the political crocodile on his “planks” and his “platforms.”"
December 30, 2020 – page 84
 40.38% "89 - IV - Man The Carnivore. -- Audio 2.35.15"
December 31, 2020 – page 93
 44.71% "So long as we remain animals, we shall be dominated by animal wants and animal passions and animal rivalries."
December 31, 2020 – page 94
 45.19% "Behold the modern man! this ‘heir of all the ages — in the foremostr anks of time!’ ... His brain has become an over-heated thinking engine, but he may not read the DAILY MORNING LIAR — without spectacles.He ‘understands’ more things (or thinks he does) but if suddenly removed from his artificial environment, he would perish helplessly as the Babes-in-the-Wood. ..."
December 31, 2020 – page 101
 48.56% "This world is no Nirvana, where peaceful pleasure flows. It is a gruesome butcher-shop, where slain men hang in rows."
December 31, 2020 – page 103
 49.52% "It is not improbable that this earth itself is a living breathing organism and that the Tribes of Man are microbes and bloodsucking vermin (on its outer cuticle) imagining themselves ‘the whole thing.’ Just as itch-creating parasites burrow themselves into our own hide, so (in our own turn) we may be unpleasant parasites, burrowing in the hide of some nobler and grander Being."
December 31, 2020 – page 105
 50.48% "Darwin’s law exists—may be seen in operation—is practicable—of daily demonstration—therefore it also is right. It is not a dream like Religion it is not an invention like Morals.... It is a cosmic Fact, like the sunshine, the rain and the tides! Nature does not set up Idols, does not found Superstitions, does not invent Decalogues. These toys and fetters have been constructed by man, for his own infinite damnation."
December 31, 2020 – page 105
 50.48% "Neither morals, laws, nor creeds are First Principles, but they may (probably) have their uses; just as guillotines, and gardeners’ hoes have their uses. They may be convenient engines for the deletion of Lower Organisms, for extirpating individuals of infantile intellect. Indeed the secret object of all superstitions possibly is, to provide an ultra-rational sanction for fraudulent standards of Right and Wrong."
December 31, 2020 – page 111
 53.37% "With the normal man, it is a pleasure to struggle, a pastime to fight, and nothing is sweeter to him than to confiscate his confiscator and surpass his surpasser .... The normal man prefers to eat others than to be eaten.
With the abnormal man, it is otherwise. He is of the mob — he sheepishly obeys public opinion — he is one of a flock. That word flock!"
December 31, 2020 – page 122
 58.65% "Awoman is two-thirds womb.The other third is a network of nerves and sentimentality.To ‘emancipate’ her, is to hand her over tothe tender mercies of clerics, who have learned to ‘play’ upon her emotionalism.Then Credos become illegitimately powerful and even try to dictate ‘the whole duty of Man.’ After a time diabolical pastor-theories inspire politics and rule nations.Then theState becomes the individual’s Dictator"
December 31, 2020 – page 123
 59.13% "... “There is no marriage in America.” A terrible menace to manhood lurks in the dictation of Slave Majorities in this as in all other affairs. Under the plausible form of Divorce Proceedings, a devilish enginery has been established; by means of which the once pure Saxon Invaders of North America, are rapidly transforming themselves into hordes of semi-socialistic free-lovers."
December 31, 2020 – page 124
 59.62% "During the first three centuries ‘Christians’ was another name for ‘free lovers’ — meeting in catacombs and secret places, to enjoy promiscuous sexualism, before the ‘end of the world’ came — an event they expected every day, for three hundred years."
December 31, 2020 – page 127
 61.06% "The man who plays ‘the game of life’ in strict accord with certain cut and dried principles — principles that everybody knows by heart, is not likely to come out a winner.
...
The man who permits himself to be directed and mastered by the insolent moral principles of the Multitude, is like an eagle with clipped wings and broken talons."
December 31, 2020 – page 130
 62.5% "Why then do parents inoculate the plastic minds of their children, with false conceptions of moral conduct, when they themselves must know (from personal experience) that all such conceptions are a positive handicap in the race for Wealth and Power."
December 31, 2020 – page 130
 62.5% "Indeed the majority of men never win success until they are middle aged; until they have had time to slough off the false Idealisms, they began the world with. Un-naturalism has never yet bred a race of heroes and never will. All great Races are predatory."
December 31, 2020 – page 136
 65.38% "Every age and nation must interpret Right and Wrong for itself. So must every man. It is each man’s manifest duty to invent his own Ethical Credo. If he neglects this duty, and supinely (without thinking) adopts the Credo of the herd into which he is born; then his individuality is merged and lost."
December 31, 2020 – page 136
 65.38% "He who ‘keeps the commandments’ of another, is necessarily the servant of that other. He who curbs his own thought, to please a majority; has already lost his mental liberty. He who implicitly relies upon ‘public opinion’ becomes a mere marionette — a bloodless dummy."
December 31, 2020 – page 137
 65.87% "The easiest way for a band of public robbers to plunder a nation, is for them to issue counterfeit currency, and exchange it for intrinsic values; and the easiest way to enslave a Race is to wheedle it into, or impose upon it counterfeit Ethics, that is to say, fraudulent standards of morality."
December 31, 2020 – page 151
 72.6% "Equality can only exist amongst equals. Civilization implies division of labor and division of labor implies subordination and subordination implies injustice and inequality. Woe to me if I speak not truth!"
December 31, 2020 – page 153
 73.56% "Society ... must exist...; for companionship is as natural to the homo, as swarming is to the bee. When however the word ‘Society’ develops into a synonym for socialistic restraint, then it becomes a menace to the Evolution of the Type and ought to be broken up accordingly — without over much ceremony. Friendship is necessary and ennobling, but impersonal despotism is destructive of all dignity and manly virtue."
December 31, 2020 – page 153
 73.56% "real danger is, that innocent and natural combinations for mutual pleasure, comradeship, profit,and defence, may transform gradually into organized majority-box tyrannies When Society is thus transfigured into a vast blackmailing corporation the lives and property of its component units are absolutely at its mercy, and it therefore ought to be disintegrated, consciously, deliberately, pitilessly, and at whatever cost"
December 31, 2020 – page 162
 77.88% "Want of daring — enfeeblement of physique — meanness of mind — fear of danger and dread of death (sure signs of racial deterioration) have never originated with athletic tournaments, nor wars of conquest, nor gladiatorial games. When ... it abolished the Olympian games, Greece rotted into decay; and when it banned gladiatorial contests, the Eternal City ‘had its day.’"
December 31, 2020 – page 162
 77.88% "The word ‘brutal’ in real life means the reverse of effeminate. A man is brutal who will not turn the other cheek. What is it that ‘Brutes’ do that in Nature, is wrong?"
December 31, 2020 – page 163
 78.37% "Athletic contests (and combats of all kinds) have a powerful influence in moulding for the better, the personnel of all participants therein. ... Courage, coolness, intrepidity, purity of blood, the mental balance, are the athlete’s first requisites. He must therefore be individualistic, self-reliant and calmly resourceful; i.e. he must be brave."
December 31, 2020 – page 165
 79.33% "Wherever soldiers conquer in war, they also conquer in love — after the first paroxysm of revengeful patriotism is over. Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle."
December 31, 2020 – page 167
 80.29% "... ... “Tolerate, O children of Israel, the false religion of the Crucified Prophet! It will serve your ends most admirably. When the tribes of the west ‘serve Jehovah with one consent’ — Behold! they shall also serve you. Christ shall ‘bring them to perfection,’ and ye shall put them in bonds. They have made you weep and suffer; ye shall make them drip tears of blood; for the Lord your God hath said it.”"
December 31, 2020 – page 171
 82.21% "Women are also remarkably good liars. Deception is an essential and necessary part of their mental equipment. They are inherently deceitful. ... Without deception of some sort, a woman would have no defence whatever, against rivals, lovers, or husbands. We must not forget that women really hate each other — intensely."
December 31, 2020 – page 174
 83.65% "Bushrangers, freebooters, rebels, pirates, have never lacked for love romances. Plays and novels by the thousand have been written upon their escapades, and are always perennially popular."
December 31, 2020 – page 178
 85.58% "Gradually the curse of ‘Law’ invades the privacy of every home. It encourages emotional feminines to defy husbands, and Deify an irresponsible Authority. In other words it deliberately promotes unfaithfulness and unlimited free-love. It undermines the husband’s Control, but at what a dreadful cost? ..."
December 31, 2020 – page 182
 87.5% "With ‘money in his purse’ the successful business man is able to support a family, and rear up his children in an environment of comparative freedom, and women are sharp to perceive this. In such matters the female mind is preternaturally acute."
December 31, 2020 – page 188
 90.38% "END OF BOOK I"