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- Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
- Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
- A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
- Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
- Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to…
- There are no vacant lots in nature.
- We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
- Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.
- New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live…
- There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
- Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.
- Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
- One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.
- The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.
- A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationalist.
- Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
- Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
- To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
- If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
- If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
- A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
- The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
- Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
- Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
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