People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

What its children become, that will the community become.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

Beauty in its simplest form doesn't need appraisal or constant change

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d’etats on the state of irrational optimism

Sorry, maybe this is the head injury talking, but … what?

Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you persist in affirming the world is.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.