Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.