What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture read more

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at read more

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the read more

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt read more

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know read more

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship read more

A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship and label-bashing, and instead of living by a theme of ideas, people begin dying for labels... and the last thing the world needs is another religion.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call read more

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.