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

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

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.