Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.

The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

We can hear God better, when we shut up faster.

I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.

I can't get myself when I'm not punctual. If I'm late for an appointment, even a bit, I don't feel good for a whole day.

Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static.

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.