It Would Seem That In Paine's View

Perhaps One Reason For The Falling-off Of Belief In A Continuance Of Conscious Existence Is To Be Found In The Quality Of Life That Most Of Us Lead. There Is Not Much In It With Which, In Any Kind Of Reason, One Can Associate The Idea Of Immortality.

When Politicians Say "i'm In Politics," It May Or May Not Be Possible To Trust Them, But When They Say, "i'm In Public Service," You Know You Should Flee.

By Consequence I Hold That No One Ever Did, Or Can Do, Anything For "society."... Comte Invented The Term Altruism As An Antonym For Egoism, And It Found Its Way At Once Into Everyone's Mouth, Although It Is Utterly Devoid Of Meaning, Since It Points To Nothing That Ever Existed In Mankind; This Hybrid Or Rather This Degenerate Form Of Hedonism Served Powerfully To Invest Collectivism's Principles With A Specious Moral Sanction, And Collectivists Naturally Made The Most Of It.

When A Beggar Asks Us For A Quarter, Our Instinct Is To Say That The State Has Already Confiscated Our Quarter For His Benefit, And He Should Go To The State About It.

Someone Asked Me Years Ago If It Were True That I Disliked Jews, And I Replied That It Was Certainly True, Not At All Because They Are Jews, But Because They Are Folks, And I Don’t Like Folks.