The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

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.

There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is ‘Gnan’, (true) Knowledge.

If you surround yourself with flowers of love, peace, and kindness, you will always find yourself in a garden of joy and happiness.

I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.

In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.

Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.

Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.