In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
Who controls the past controls the future. who controls the present controls the past.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Love never claims it ever gives.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.