Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.