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

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.

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

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

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.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language

You have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs.

Give me a 6 pack, half-hour of rest and lets go play them again - We can beat them.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.