There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

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.

Any time a stipulation on love is present, unconditional love is not.

What is this place?" "Nothing at all. Everywhere there is. Both at once?" Wereberry offered.

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

Writing is busy idleness.

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.

A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

Self-control is only courage under another form.