Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.

The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

It is not fools that I seek to address.