We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.