But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.