The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.