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| The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists | | Arguments | |
| The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them | | Mind | |
| The great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable | | Uncategorized | |
| The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her | | Uncategorized | |
| The human race is in such a dreadful state that no rational person can talk about it without resorting to seditious and obscene language | | Uncategorized | |
| The idea that (school-children) are happy is of a piece with the idea that the lobster in the pot is happy | | Uncategorized | |
| The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented | | Uncategorized | |
| The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy | | Uncategorized | |
| The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it | | Uncategorized | |
| The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda | | Uncategorized | |
| The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic | | Ideas | |
| The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all | | Liberalism | |
| The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly swatter | | Life | |
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| The major contribution of Protestant thought to the knowledge of mankind is its massive proof that God is a bore | | Uncategorized | |
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| The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits | | Military | |
| The more a man dreams, the less he believes | | Dreams | |
| The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. | | Foolishness | |
| The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are. | | Uncategorized | |
