If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

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

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

The secret of winning any prize is knowing that your own treasure and potential is equal to it... and worthy of it.

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

Experience is of particulars only.

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it.

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That's all they'll ever be.

Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons.

You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.