The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment - and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning.

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.