If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
Get off your butt and join the Marines!
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
