The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

I couldn't shake the impulse to help him. It seemed that the older I got the more I believed that everyone, homeless or not, deserved to be treated at least like a human.

I mean, yeah, maybe our fate is sometimes fixed and unchangeable, but there are other times when its shaped purely by the actions we take.

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

Every writer must have a chip of ice in his heart.

The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.