To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog

Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was an apologist for the divine right of kings.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.

The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.