To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Every country has the government it deserves.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

I could still do a suit, I just wouldn't have done that exact lapel situation.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

I am what I photograph.

The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991.

Bullshit," Salander said again. "Gottfried isn't the only kid who was ever mistreated. That doesn't give him the right to murder women. He made that choice himself. And the same is true of Martin.

If you have a juggernaut, you can make change. I'm all for that. If we could force people to always be connected when you play the game, and then have that be acceptable, awesome.