Aleister Crowley Quotes

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty. Or, they tell us, they are rough-and-ready proles, laughing along with us at the efforts of our social "betters" to reform and improve us. That they are often, in fact, people of privilege doing their utmost to boost the fortunes of a political party that is the traditional tool of the privileged is a contradiction that does not trouble them.

Reasons are for peasants.

And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.

How about those people who don't need sleep? What are they called again? Successful? What a bunch of dicks they are.

The bias against the show is purely elitist. We're all like the people on the show - the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There's nothing that happens on my show that rich people don't experience.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.'

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.

BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.