An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

Don't let them tell us stories

You told me you would never leave me, but the only thing I feel is loneliness...

Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines.

Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.

I didn't try to be something I wasn't.

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.