“Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.”

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.

To be successful in life what you need is education.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life’s course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

Listening to a woman is almost as bad as losing to one. There are only three things that women are better at than men: cleaning, cooking, and having sex.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man’s support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.