The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.

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.

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.