Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner

The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.