There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king

This is the day the Lord had made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

Money makes the world go round.