You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.