Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

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.

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.

Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.

Broken or whole... you're all mine. You... are all mine! ~Sade~

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Too bad you can't quote the look on my face.

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.

Never throw into double coverage.