It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.