"The writer's duty is to disturb the peace, to question the unquestionable, and to reveal the hidden."

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

Reality is a construction of the mind.

举一个例子尚且不明白,就不要追求见多识广。