“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”

“Happiness is the china shop love is the bull. ”

“Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most facilely alarm them. One must study the schemes that have served to do it in the past, and o...”

“You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”

“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.”

“Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”

“It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the s...”

“Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.”

“We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.”

“We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.”

“In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.”

“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the takingit away from those who have a different complexion or slightlyflatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you lookinto it too mu...”