Great minds think for themselves.
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.