Society and the World

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,

The House of Peers, throughout the war,

The Law is the true embodiment

Work is love made visible.

Are you a politician who says to himself: ‘I will use my country for my own benefit’? … Or are you a devoted patriot, who whispers in the ear of his inner self: ‘I love to serve my country as a faithful servant.’

Are you a politician who says to himself: ‘I will use my country for my own benefit’? … Or are you a devoted patriot, who whispers in the ear of his inner self: ‘I love to serve my country as a faithful servant.’

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

If with me you’d fondly stray.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is ‘a covenant with death and an agreement with hell’.

Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind.

I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard!

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

From the lone shieling of the misty island

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes—I mean the universe … This book is written in mathematical language and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help … one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

Eppur si muove.

We are all Adam’s children but silk makes the difference.

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know

The land was ours before we were the land’s.

The land was ours before we were the land’s.