Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to shield them from knowledge of the real dangers and opportunities.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

Develop the winning edge

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.

The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

Not only did Judas sell Jesus for thirty pieces of silver; he also sold himself.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.