Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich.
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
For a century, we've been singing war songs about addicts. All along, we should have been singing love songs to them.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
