You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

When at last we are sure, You’ve been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.