You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.

Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.

Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.