...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

The devil is compromise.

Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.