I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

I think Hillary Clinton is right. I think it isn't enough to leave [Bashir] Assad in place, because as long as he is there, there is going to be a recruiting magnet for ISIS.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you.

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

No man ever became wise by chance.

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.