Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.