Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

I'm afraid even ImpSec has no explanation for women's tastes in men.

The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.

Well now, Jack," Hastings said from the sidelines. "I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start." He sounded amused.

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

“I don't like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.” “I'd rather not,” the Cat remarked.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.