Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

Blaming others for your mistakes you powerless to change your life. Taking responsibility for your mistakes gives you power to change your life.

What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it.

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

In true love there is no heart break. A broken heat means broken demands, broken expectations and broken hopes.