General Sayings

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

No man was ever wise by chance.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed.

The individual is a passive vessel to be filled by the environment.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.

The truth does not contradict the truth; rather, it is consistent with it and bears witness to it.

The state is the very organ of social thought.

The bureaucracy is the means of transforming social action into rationally organized action.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.

The liberal position on pornography is that consenting adults should be allowed to do what they want in private.

Humans are not special because they are human. Species membership alone is morally irrelevant.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

There is no such thing as a righteous war.

The nature of man is such that he is born with a fondness for profit.

Villain, I have done thy mother.

I have seen from my window the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.

Nigeria is a nation of hypocrites—we celebrate criminals and crucify the innocent.

The Gulag Archipelago would not have existed without the cowardice of the Russian people.

The English are not very inventive; they are more imitative. They have not produced great artists, great painters, great musicians.

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity.