We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Life is a dead-end street.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

Time stays, we go.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house... and through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. For hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you're consistent, you will succeed.

You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way... to get in the way.

What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.

I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble.

We must be headlights and not taillights.

Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.'

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.

I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat.

Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace - the way of non-violence - the way of love - the way of life as the way of living.