"What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!"

"There is no advance without strife."

"The waiters all are rude. The bellboys scream and yell. The swill is better than the food. Goddamn the Mills Hotel."

"But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective…"

"Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression."

"The blame for Armageddon lies on man. And the millennium will come only when the average man exhibits a scientific in…"

"Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion."

"The church has stood, a rock colossus of bigotry, in the path of ten thousand proposed reforms. Sane efforts to legal…"

"Few men, indeed, are so mad that they do not know when they are doing wrong. But so avid is their pursuit of goods th…"

"There are in America from fifteen to twenty million religious fundamentalists who are dedicated to doctrines incompat…"