Fear is choosing the safe course

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.