Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Every country has the government it deserves.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

Time is manmade! It is simply an invention! Believe it or not, time only exists here on earth for us humans.

Mom and dad probably told you I've been arrested. I'm innocent. I want you to know that.

Age is only a number a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Go West young man and grow up with the country.

The madman theory is that you can be a successful deterrer if you - if they think you could be crazy. And so I think it can be very effective, so long as you're not actually crazy.

I have decided not to die.

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

Always zig when people expect you to zag. Confound them!

We won't know for a few years.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art