We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You're new and you're hot and things go wrong.

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you.

Bernie Sanders says that the biggest banks that dominate the economy should be broken up into smaller banks. This would be far more radical than Hillary Clinton's proposals to regulate Wall Street.

There's nothing better than meeting somebody with a great soul, and a great spirit and a good heart.

Stop the mental chatter about what's wrong and what's not complete. There is a presence of Love that is seeking to express itself through you.

Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.