Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Socialism means slavery.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing.

To set yourself up for success, you need to be real about what you can commit to consistently.

If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

Please stop sniffing the robot boy, Noemi tells herself, jerking out of the trance.

You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.

You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being

The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

I just don't lose weight easily.

When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.