Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Eating healthy is expensive. Not eating healthy is expensive. One dents your pocket. The other dents your health.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

Is not Justice just a nice way to say revenge.

Force shites upon Reason's Back.

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.