Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You’d better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?
Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.
The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all. . . why then perhaps we must stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales!
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.
It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death. " "Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.
America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U. S. has an amazing lead.