Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that "the war on drugs is lost." But to demand a yes or no answer to the question "Is the war against drugs being won?" is like demanding a yes or no answer to the question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" Never can an unimaginative and fundamentally stupid metaphor have exerted a more baleful effect upon proper thought.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.