Miscellaneous Quotes

A kiss may ruin a human life.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, from all let this be heard. Some does it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

All glory is fleeting.