It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.