One ought to be a bit embarrassed to win an election.
Apr 092014
Apr 082014
To make a reputation as a deep thinker, settle on a single half-truth early, and spend the rest of your life flogging it.
Apr 072014
The last heresy is orthodoxy.
Apr 042014
True freaks don’t fly flags.
Apr 032014
The basest viciousness usually wraps itself in a hygienic metaphor.
Apr 022014
A man should be pleased to make subtle errors; it means he has avoided the obvious ones.
Apr 012014
The inability to fathom a design without a designer leads to hostility to markets in half of the world, and hostility to Darwin in the other half.
Mar 312014
Only after he has exhausted his other resources does the boy begin to torture insects, or the ruler his subjects.
Mar 282014
Moral progress is only economic progress: men in the mass have the ethics they can afford.
Mar 272014
One often hears complaints against morally improving books, as if it were better to be degraded by one’s reading.