Politics

"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism."

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."

"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart."

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."

"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."

"So long as we remain the kind of society we are, the role of government should be very limited."

"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."

"The more the state 'plans' the more difficult planning becomes for the individual."

"Man is by nature a political animal."

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

"The best way to prevent a bad government is to establish a good one."

"The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded."

"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."

"The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said 'This is mine,' and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing."

"History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books - books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?'"

"I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician."

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

"The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world."

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."