What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

How I wish I only felt using my hands and not with my whole heart.

Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.

If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.