The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

I could be irksome when I put my left ventricle into it.

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.