The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.

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.

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

But if two and two and fifty make a million...

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.

The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.