Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know.

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope.

The mind can never foresee its own advance

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the gravestthreat to it.

Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer.

Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn’t choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.

It is a comfort to hear the words of God in times of stress.

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth.

I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.

Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.