Controversial Sayings

There are no ugly women – only women who don't care or don't believe they're attractive.

I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

When the bell rings, it will be heard from the Urals to the Pacific, and it will be for the ruin of Russia, and there will be no more Russia.

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

Virginia was never nearer emancipation than when General Turner kindled the fires of insurrection at Southampton.

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

The very meaninglessness of life forces a man to create his own meaning.

I am not a Communist, but I am proud to say that I feel pretty pro-Communist.

He [Arthur Miller] wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Language and religion do not make a race—there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.

I have friends in the other world. I have had very pleasant conversations with them. I am rather unorthodox in this matter.

There are cruel, ignorant people who have tried to make my work appear bad. But it is not bad. It is good. It is for the good of humanity.

The value of the experiment as a means of solving questions of evolution must not be underestimated.

It is a pleasure to be able to inform you that the machine has been a success.

The great difficulty for our contemporary way of thinking is that we must recognize the identity of the experiencing and the experienced subject.

The popular view that the brain is a 'digital computer' is a profound oversimplification.

I would like to add a third possibility, that it might be that, when we die, we just die, and that's the end of it.