Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.