In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Sometimes, however, there is more than hope.Sometimes there is reason.

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

The greatest hunter is one who knows how to wait.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what it takes to get anyone to care.

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.

I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

What is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it.