If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.

Women often don't want to be typecast as the girl that's sad.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers.

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

I used to buy good shoes, now I buy good bags. They make me feel more confident.

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.

Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?