A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

I am beginning to understand, " said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

There are no inevitabilities in history

All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.

I'm not saying that anybody should like me. Give me a chance before you form that opinion.

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.