By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.