"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale."
"I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out."
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"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."
"I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system."
"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all."
"The unfed mind devours itself."
"Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild."