It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

Liers cannot be lied to because they know everything can be a lie.

We stand somewhere between the mountain and the ant.

Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

There are no new fundamentals.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

You don't have to want death in order to prepare for it.

If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.