The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.