The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
The devil is compromise.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
A forest bird never wants a cage.
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
What ought a man to be Well my short answer is himself.
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
