Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. . . . Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.
One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.