The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

...sin is often the attempt to meet a legitimate need in an illegitimate way.

CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

I'm always looking for a nexus, where you can put all these diverse people together, see how they respond to one another, see what they learn about each other, and what they like and don't like.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am / And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.