There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.

People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration of the Sphinx; and the devotee of nuts by pointing out that hazelnuts and walnuts are as deleterious as other foods and only Brazil nuts should be tolerated. But when I was younger I had not yet acquired this technique, with the result that my contacts with cranks were sometimes alarming.