The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.

I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

the beauty of doing nothing

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.