The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the subjection of others.

I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.

North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.