Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?