To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons, giving brith to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire...I'll put it bluntly. Human beings are free excpet when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me - to find out what you're good for.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.