Controversial Sayings

The United States is a leading terrorist state.

Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

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.

Death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.

For a man who wishes to make a profession of good in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are only rather thoughtless: the old ones are corrupt.

The deaf should not intermarry.

The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

I can think of nothing else than this machine.

The being who can govern itself, has an empire which the most despotic monarch cannot boast.

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.

Ignorance of these particulars about oneself means that no one is able to tailor principles to his own advantage.

The most depraved type of human being is the man who is happy to serve. A man who is happy to serve is a slave.