Quotes to inspire and reflect

discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Information is not knowledge.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Do not wait for the last judgement. It comes every day.

A hungry man is not a free man.

 

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

One death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic.

 

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.

To the mean all becomes mean.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.

“Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master.”

The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

He who controls the past controls the future.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Sin is geographical.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest—ask him. If he says, “Yes,” you know he is a crook.

I was so horrified when I read about the effects of smoking that I gave up reading.

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

Never confuse movement with action.