When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
Limiting the freedom of news ‘just a little bit’ is in the same category with the classic example ’a little bit pregnant.
The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.
It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can’t be enforced weakens all other laws.
Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not – and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.
A boy who gets a C- in ‘Appreciation of Television’ can’t be all bad.
I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It’s a common failing.
You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but – if you will pardon my saying so – all wrong.
Morals – all correct moral laws – derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.
But, do you know, once you get used to it’s rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.
It’s better to copulate than not.
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Sense is never common.
I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey...
Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.
Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.