What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his own fearful outlook and by his fear of the other; each moves and is moved within a circle both vicious and lethal.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.