As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

we're lost where the mind can't find usutterly lost

Putting in effort is like riding a bicycle on train tracks, you will get to where you want to go but you will feel every bump along the way.

A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy. If the slightest mistake can end a career, then no one will ever take risks.

Let go of your PAST.…live in the NOW!

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.