At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.