There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

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.

America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

Who has magnificent self-confidence And fears nothing that exists? The man who has attained to truth And lives free of error.

The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.