Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.
In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.
There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
Working because you want to is the best sort of play.
We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.
Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job.
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]
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