If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they're afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows. Have you practical people ever thought that that's all it would take to blast your whole, big, complex structure, with all your laws and guns - just somebody naming the exact nature of what you're doing?

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizing that it was the only system that could make freedom, individuality and the pursuit of values possible in practice.