Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

A human being has no natural rights of any nature.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.