The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends... ...when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object.

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.

One genius is about all a house will hold.