Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent its leaking out at a certain point, with the likely result that it will leak out at some other point.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.