[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.

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.

For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even days or weeks afterwards.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

Africa is poor because she is not free.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.