True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

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.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.

How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

We can deploy a half a billion more solar panels.

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

The Democrats right now are living in an alternative universe.