Quotes selected by the Escritas.org team.

A hungry man is not a free man.

 

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

 

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

To the mean all becomes mean.

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

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.

He who controls the past controls the future.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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

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

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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

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

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

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

Sin is geographical.

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

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

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.

Never confuse movement with action.

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

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man.