A thing is important if anyone think it important.

You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.

The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.