Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?
The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Evil is that which one believes of others.
Anyhow, the hole in the donut is at least digestible.
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.
The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no means of resistance? Obviously they have. The worst tyrant, even under democratic plutocracy, has but one throat to slit. The moment the majority decided to overthrow him he would be overthrown. But the majority lacks the resolution; it cannot imagine taking the risks.
We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.
I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.
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