In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.
I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.
I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
Working because you want to is the best sort of play.
The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.
We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.
Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job.
No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]
Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.
Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.
I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
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