If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.