If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.