Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to...

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

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

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepare to see them misunderstood.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a...

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by...

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.