Conservative, n: a statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
Simone Weil, THE NEED FOR ROOTS
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Dr. Samuel Johnson