“Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.”

“The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what youre up to.”

“Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.”

“It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.”

“People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly.”

“Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.”

“It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not on...”

“If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So its not that you are anti-gun. Youll need the polices guns to take away other peoples...”

“Are you for peace? The great test of your devotion to peace is not how many words you utter on its behalf. Its not even how you propose to deal with people of other countries, though that certainly...”