Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as for what they keep us from doing.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him of his happiness at one stroke.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life He first individualizes.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

When you go out to fight for freedom and truth it's never a good idea to wear your best trousers.