Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

Act as if you are, and you will become such.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.