All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.
There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.
The goal of evolution is self – conquest.
Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter’s colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
Theology is Classified Superstition.
Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.
A man’s acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Play needs direction as well as work.