[Referring to FDR] If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he needs so sorely, he would begin fatteni….

What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, ….

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey..

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy..

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but al….

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats..

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel saf….

No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are….

By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Abso….

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessar….

The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime..

The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. ….

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven..

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself..

The real man lies in the depths of subconscious..

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty..

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not ….

Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons ….

What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating….

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine..