Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

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

Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven't the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code--monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth--then fiddle with details...even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight! (p.365)