Society and the World

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them.

With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of dist.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of dist.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.