In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are to be determined by the conduct of Nature. But Nature knows nothing about rights in the sense of human conception.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.