Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.

We talk on principle but we act on interest.

The ultimate joke was the idea that capitalism would eat its own feces in order to make money, that would make fun of itself if capitalism thought there was a buck in it.

If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.

For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.

You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.

If you believe you are right, or you believe you are wrong, you're right. Whenever you are certain about it, you will support it. Remember that.