I'm Much Too Modest A Person.

The Hallmark Of Religion Is To Distrust Claims Made For Mortal Men. It Is In Ages Of Great Religious Faith That Great Skepticism Can Find Expression.

It Is Simply That America Is Very Rich And Very Powerful And Generally Speaking Everybody Hates The Rich And The Powerful.

There Is Something Ridiculous And Even Quite Indecent In An Individual Claiming To Be Happy. Still More A People Or A Nation Making Such A Claim. The Pursuit Of Happiness Is Without Any Question The Most Fatuous Which Could Possibly Be Undertaken. This Lamentable Phrase - The Pursuit Of Happiness - Is Responsible For A Good Part Of The Ills And Miseries Of The Modern World.

I Think That The Essence Of A Free And Civilized Society Is That Everything In It Should Be Subject To Criticism, That All Forms Of Authority, Should Be Treated With A Certain Reservation.

If God Is Dead, Somebody Is Going To Have To Take His Place. It Will Be Megalomania Or Erotomania, The Drive For Power Or The Drive For Pleasure, The Clenched Fist Or The Phallus, Hitler Or Hugh Hefner.