Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.