What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:)"Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.

The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.

I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.

There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.