People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.