But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

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.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

For what reasons would you waste your time on earth?

Fine. You don’t want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.

I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.

A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth