Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.

The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.