Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

The earth neither grows old or wears out if it is dunged.

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.

I never want to be a role model.

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.