Nature abhors a vacuum.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn...which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection.

The Papacy is not other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

Conflict is the original meaning of being-for-others.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time, is commended.

Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, even to murder, for the truth.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.