Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
Communism is the opiate of the people.
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.