 Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money. |
| There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them. |
| When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising. |
| Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere. |
| Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions. |
| We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. |
| Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm. |
| Hard distinctions make bad philosophy. |
| Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor. |
| A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest. |
| Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. |
| The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement. |
| In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. |
| If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell. |
| Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it. |
| Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. |
| The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'. |
| Language is froth on the surface of thought. |
| His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web. |
| Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. |
