Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

I don't actually drive trains. I'm an actor.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.

Leave everyone you meet better than you found them. Become an encourager of potential versus a destroyer of confidence.

If you believe in yourself, things are possible.