I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.