It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.