It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have settled down to living with nuclear fission, radiation poisoning, hydrogen bombs, satellites, and space rockets.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others.

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.