“You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.”

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.

Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good. The new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.

Bull markets have valuation froth and bull markets have commitment forth. Now just by valuation froth, bull markets do not end.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.