Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
