The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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!
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
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.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
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.
No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.
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.