Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.