Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

What you call love on your side may be called lust on another's side.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.

Serbia is blamed in advance for everything.

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals.

Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.