When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

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

There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.

In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.