Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense merit was that it enabled a large constituency to exert indirect power, and thus made possible the distribution of political responsibility throughout the great states of modern times.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.