What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

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

What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous.... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.