Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

Syllables govern the world.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!