Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.