In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

Industry need not wish.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

I’ve never been a feminist.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.