“No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.”

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

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.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion.

The Lord has so much compassion, He involves Himself in our problems.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.