Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.

Any system of ethics must account for scarcity. If it doesn’t, humanity would perish due to misallocation of finite resources, including one’s own body.

Democracy is the antithesis of liberty. The foundation and cornerstone of liberty is private property and majority rule is thus logically incompatible with this.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.