Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband.

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

Perseverance is another word for faith!

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?