Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.
Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.""";"Richard