However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

You dont live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

I like living with myself. I mean obviously, because here I am interviewing myself.

There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.