Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.