“A man can live free and not seek to limit the freedom of others so long as no one seeks to limit his.”
“Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.”
“The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge - much older than the desire for truth - to command attention, dominate one's fellows.”
“Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way”
“The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.”
“Wickedness is too common in the world for us to think much of why and wherefore.It is more natural to ask about the rarer thingand wonder why people sometimes do good.”