“The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”

The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.

If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.

Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.

Never confuse movement with action.

We very often confuse personality with leadership.

I would rather have people think we’re confused than let our competitors know what we’re going to do.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.