Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Solitude is the house of peace.

Without emotion, all thoughts or words are powerless.

Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

Every moment is travel - if understood.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.