I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

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?

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.