Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

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.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?

It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.

In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.

Sadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell.