“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”

The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The best books are those that tell you what you know already.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.

There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.

If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I’m complicit.

Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine.