Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
I hate government. I hate power. I think that man’s existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.
How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
It’s a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.
God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.
I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.
The only thing that really teaches one what life’s about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies – is suffering, affliction.
Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.
The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.
The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
I don’t like seeing people angry.
There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.
All new news is old news happening to new people.
There’s far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.