Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

But if the U.S. were to leave now and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united country, that would definitely be a second mistake.

What power has love but forgiveness?