All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Where there is passion, there is possibility.

I don’t see how anyone can find happiness in this world.

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

Stab one or two healers, and everyone overreacts.