General Sayings

The subjection of women is an evil, and a hindrance to human improvement.

Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Action, not contemplation, is the highest human faculty.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting of nothing but jokes.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

A man's life is nothing but a slow trek to death.

The deaf should not intermarry.

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

The proletariat has nothing to lose but its chains. It has a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!

The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory.

There are no such things as 'rights' for animals.

Civilization began the first time an angry man cast a stone instead of a word.

The path to the nucleus is easy to find, but the nucleus itself is hard to reach.

The naked truth of decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

The fight against tuberculosis is hopeless unless we attack the germ directly.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person who is crushed who feels it.

I grieve to say that I know of no country where the practice of dentistry is so atrocious as in England.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

All I am is literature, and I am not able to be anything else.