Don't waste your sufferings.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.
The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about.
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?