Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind her made me feel sick, petrified. Only the future mattered now.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

When I'm feeling sorry for myself, I'll eat Lucky Charms cereal. I like having sugar when I'm in that mood.

In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of no use.

Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.

Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.