Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!

On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.

What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement.