Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you!

The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.