People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.

I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.