On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race wit….

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man….

[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes ….

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human ….

It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a r….

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because….

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity..

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever..

It's better to copulate than not..

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it..

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and h….

God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these a….

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself..

Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers..

God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology..

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in an….

Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men..

Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events..

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own..

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark..