There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.