Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor