Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.

The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

The best grammarian still can't write a verse.

The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.

There can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upholds basic civil rights for children, most children will not know love.

Every morning I wake up and thank God that I don't believe in him.

It’s better to do one thing well than ten things poorly.

I must apologize for calling so late, " said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

Never tell your resolution beforehand.

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material.

That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.