So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger.
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. . . socialism is a new form of slavery.
everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the world by offering a bonus or a yearly pension to all obviously unfit parents who allow themselves to be sterilized by harmless and scientific means.
The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause, the life within the outer form. Recording unfelt facts, acquired by rule, results in sterile inventory. To see the Thing Itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism - the casual noting of the superficial phase, a transitory mood.