Pot is to narcotics what herpes is to social diseases; it doesn't count cos it's not really dangerous and it's too easy to get.

Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met

You never hear in the news, "200 killed today when Atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the Agnostic stronghold in the north."

If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

There's only two types of people who are against drugs: the people who have never done drugs and the people who really sucked at doing drugs.

I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.

Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?

One UK paper described me as a "miserablist", a word I'd never heard before or since. I looked it up and it means someone who can only be happy when they are miserable. Perfect.

I think a lot of women look at prostitutes like they're scabs crossing an union picket line, where they go: You can't just go out and sell it for what it's worth, we're holding out for so much more!

What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

Love is the strength of the human heart.

For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable.

He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable.

Some people want what they are not willing to give.

Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, We've had enough, we are going to take over.