Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

VW used to mean FAHRVERGNUGEN and now it's FARFROMUNION!Birgit Von Schondorf

Create a Piracy Free World fora Creative Tomorrow

I don’t know what would I have done without you in this difficult time for me and indeed, you are right, things happen for a reason and even mistakes help us to be better.

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

Best friends are made are made through smiles and tears, and sometimes that fades away through miles and years.

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.