There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.

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

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed with them was immoral, outrageous, sinful, sacrilegious, offensive, intolerable, stupid, illogical, treasonable, actionable, against the public interest, ridiculous, and obscene. The two subjects were (of course) sex and religion.

If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.