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.

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

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.

The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

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

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.