I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.