Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.