I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!