Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket