Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.