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- The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it.…
- A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.
- There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start…
- Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there…
- 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…
- Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure…
- The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is…
- The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or…
- Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
- A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.
- The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in…
- The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful…
- It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they…
- No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses,…
- Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every…
- Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks…
- Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
- The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
- Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
- Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the…
- A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
- The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws…
- Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals
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