No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man..

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in..

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. Tha….

He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored..

If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood,….

The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease a….

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater ….

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule..

When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A..

To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Rol….

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are cal….

The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawb….

I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only o….

No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American p….

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the p….

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world..

A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by th….

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety.

An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibi….

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by w….

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool..