Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.

When you're corked...you're corked!

I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.

Politics is not about justice, but about solutions.

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.

I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.

There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart.