Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

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.

If we are established in a ministry it will be very difficult for the devil to uproot us

The decision is I'm going to do everything I can to fight for the working class of this country, the low-income people against income and wealth inequality, do everything we can about climate change.

Germany is dictating its policy in Europe

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long!

Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.