Society and the World

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Okie use’ ta mean you was from Oklahoma.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

A clever theft was praiseworthy amongst the Spartans; and it is equally so amongst Christians, provided it be on a sufficiently large scale.

A clever theft was praiseworthy amongst the Spartans; and it is equally so amongst Christians, provided it be on a sufficiently large scale.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Science is organized knowledge.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders … all my pupils are the crème de la crème.

There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.

You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power—he’s free again.

You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power—he’s free again.

But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.

I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.

I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.