In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
The hallmark of a free society is that I may totally disapprove of what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it until I die.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
I'm no syllogism incarnate, but my wife makes me look like Immanuel Kant.
In grade school I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.
I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me. ” Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.
There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.