In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

Nostalgia is the only friend that stays with you forever.

Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, don not fault with others.

Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.