The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

The greatest warriors fight not for crowns and splendor, but for love.

If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with respect when they are beautiful and throw them on the highway when they are dead.

You are only old once, but you can be immature forever.

Anyone 100% optimistic is on medicine.Anyone 100% pessimistic should be.

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.