Society and the World

I [Krishna] am all-powerful Time which destroys all things, and I have come here to slay these men. Even if thou does not fight, all the warriors facing thee shall die. ch. 11, v. 32; see Oppenheimer 253:17

The question is not, Can they reason? nor,

All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

STREETS FLOODED. PLEASE ADVISE. message sent on arriving in Venice

In America there are two classes of travel—first class, and with children.

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,

Here richly, with ridiculous display,

Whatever happens we have got

For every time She shouted ‘Fire!’

ESTRAGON : Charming spot. Inspiring prospects. Let’s go.

One of the thieves was saved. (Pause) It’s a reasonable percentage.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius! … You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.