The mob is the mother of tyrants.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

We shape our buildings

The better part of valour is discretion.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of U.S. soldier is just the lie of fools.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's Coltrane to speak in Turkish.

In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.