If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

We particularly like people who value us highly.

The one who pulls is the one they urge on.

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

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.