One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

I want to sling a stone, a small rock into a pool, see it ripple. I want to shake a tree, create a small storm..

It is not rational, never mind 'appropriate, ' to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits.

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

You can linger too long in your dreams.

The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.

God finally caught his eye.

The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound.

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

This is an amazing thought: a God who is indescribable.

We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.