All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.