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

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.

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.

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.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

He was too gorgeous for words and worst yet he knew it.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you want the reader to follow you. It depends on what effect you're looking for.

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.

Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

Voiceover work reminds me of old-time radio. When I was little I used to sneak and stay up at night and listen to Mystery Radio Theater - I loved all those old radio plays.