I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.

The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull

It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.