Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.

The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

There is a big difference between positive thinking and wishful thinking. Sitting around and wishing is definitely not going to create a miracle in your life.

A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.

I thought, I can't wait to get on the podium squad. I was in my hotel and they were in the Premier Inn living the high life!

Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.

I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.

I don't think anyone who has ever counted drinking amongst their hobbies has never kissed a man.

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.

Better we raise our skill than lower the climb