All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)

Spirituality is the spark of the soul.

May you fill your days with love, laughter, and joy.

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

Commies love concrete.