Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of 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 don't have principles. I have nerves.
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.
Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor.