Ben Caxton, I will lie right here in the grass and starve before I will get up to push a button that is six inches from your right forefinger.
Because revolution—armed uprising—requires not only dissatisfaction but aggressiveness. A revolutionist has to be willing to fight and die—or he’s just a parlor pink. If you separate out the aggressiv...
Başkalarının işine burnunu sokmamak insanın sahip olabileceği bilgeliğin yüzde seksenidir... kalan yüzde yirmi de pek önemli değildir zaten.
Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.
Anne is so thoroughly indoctrinated that it doesn’t even occur to her to infer that the other side is probably white, too. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t force her to commit her...
A religion is sometimes a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong---and you are strong. The great trouble with...
A military hierarchy automatically places a premium on conservative behavior and dull conformance with precedent; it tends to penalize original and imaginative thinking. Commodore Arkwright realized t...
A magician is a rule-of-thumb engineer.
A desire not to butt into other people’s business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom . . . and the other twenty percent isn’t very important.
The word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.
A book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
Intelligence in the military meaning; a man in a suit can be just as stupid as anybody else—only he had better not be),
That there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart . . . no matter what the merciless hours have done.
Rational anarchist believes that concepts such as state and society and government have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is...
Obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence
It’s well to take a look at what new rascals you are going to get before you jump at any chance to turn your present rascals out. Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that...
Answered his telephone himself if he happened to be at hand when it signalled because each call offered good odds that he would be justified in being gratifyingly rude to some stranger for daring to i...
Ago he had made a pact with himself to postulate a created Universe on even-numbered days, a tail-swallowing eternal-and-uncreated Universe on odd-numbered days—since each hypothesis, whole paradoxica...
A government is a living organism. Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. You hit it, it will fight back.