Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.

Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

The last freedom is choosing your attitude.