Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

... any country that is not careful can be seized.

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.

Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.