Some Immemorial Imbecilities Have Been Added Deliberately,

No Politician Is Ever Benefited By Saving Money; It Is Spending It That Makes Him.

Imagine The Creator As A Low Comedian, And At Once The World Becomes Explicable.

You Can't Do Anything About The Length Of Your Life, But You Can Do Something About Its Width And Depth.

No Government Is Ever Really In Favor Of So-called Civil Rights. It Always Tries To Whittle Them Down. They Are Preserved Under All Governments, Insofar As They Survive At All, By Special Classes Of Fanatics, Often Highly Dubious.

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 Impossible To Imagine This World Being Really Civilized So Long As So Much Nonsense Survives. In Even Its Highest Forms Religion Embraces Concepts That Run Counter To All Common Sense. It Can Be Defended Only By Making Assumptions And Adopting Rules Of Logic That Are Never Heard Of In Any Other Field Of Human Thinking.