There's never been a good government.

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.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

The question of purpose and meaning becomes obsolete when you think beyond human life.

Opportunity starts with a great education.

It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

Most people don't know where they stand. One day their boss gives them an eye roll, and it can set back their whole day. It causes enormous stress.