The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.... Let me give you a tip on men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the...bell of an approaching looter.

Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.