... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

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.

It was a glorious illusion and she fell asleep before it ended.

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy.

Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.

'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts.

I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

The youth are the catalysts for real change.