“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men.”

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

What does your conscience say? – ‘You should become the person you are.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

A woman’s compassion and gentleness are often taken for her weakness, never push someone to a point where they have nothing to loose anymore, you only give them a freedom not many know, such people don’t only become dangerous but lethal as well

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.

Prisons where people can’t even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don’t think we should put all convicts in such facilities where people are deprived of their freedom.