If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Self-knowledge is power.

Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me

What really matters is what you believe.

My administration is going to enforce all trade violations against any country that cheats.

"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people.

Alpinism places unique demands on its practitioners.

All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.