The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.

If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.

...it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...

IN OUR CELLSThey keep us in our cellsFor a long time...And, if we get out, We lug them with us on our shoulders, Like a porter with a chest of goods.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

I'm trying my hardest to get you so wrapped up in me you never leave.

It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?

As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.