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 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.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

Accept the challenge and never fear to change.

I had to come to terms with the fact that I wouldn’t have peace with myself until I found a way to like myself.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.

The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.