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

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.

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

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?

...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.

For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one

You will find love, when you surrender yourself to love.

Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying

Do nothing immoderate.

All the PG-13 superhero movies are depriving me of the gore that I need.

What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

If something must be true for us, as humans, to exist, than it is true simply because we exist.

If your education is not enough, experience will teach you lessons.