Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Emotional intelligence will give you insight as to why people behave as they do and assist you in areas which you may wish to improve.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner, ' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can go on to say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?'

I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.