We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

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.

If you teach a wolf how to hunt, it will reward you by devouring you.

Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.

At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment.

My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.

When God brings all things to light, you will discover just how significant you've been in God's plan.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

A lot of people like cats. Take the Pope, for example: I read recently that he was a cat-oholic!