But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.

I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.