Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural.

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.

Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.

Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.

Good or bad I propose to be something great!

Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.

For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.

I drove in last night, ' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story?

If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.

man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.