I am free, no matter what rules surround me. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for every thing I do.
Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.
A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.
What we think of as ‘Physical beauty’ is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness intelligence among them.
An armed society is a polite society.
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone’s opinion is worth the same.
The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.
Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America – and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.