Alex J. O'Connor

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

“Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like other knives,
That cost me eighteen pence.

I need but stick it in my heart
And down will come the sky,
And earth's foundations will depart
And all you folk will die.”
― A.E. Housman, More Poems