He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."

He has the most who is most content with the least.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

It is better to be unhappy with rejection of love than never love.

We can’t be afraid to dismiss the unappreciative.

We often forget how thirsty we are because we believe we will fulfill our dreams.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results.

People like scandals.

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."

Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.