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Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - [Criticism] Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - [Democracy] Do not overestimate the decency of the human race. - [Decency] During the majority of his waking hours he is in close association with his pupils, who are admittedly his inferiors, and so he rapidly acquires the familiar, self-satisfied professorial attitude of mind. - [Teachers] Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn. - [Economics] Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - [Anger] Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. - [Faith] For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. - [Religion] For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted. - [Free Speech] Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. - [Voting] Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm. - [Democracy] Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives. - [Artists] He marries best who puts it off until it is too late. - [Marriage] History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men. - [History] Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. - [Husbands] I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations. - [Expectation] I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors. - [Editors] I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark. - [Drinking] In war, the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. - [War] It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. - [Rebellion] It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs. - [Drinking] It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. - [Birth Control] It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. - [Dullness] Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - [Love] Displaying page 2 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5
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