I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

I'm not a big fan of those who are egotistical and so outspoken.

I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

I won't give up till we surrender!

If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.