Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.