One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
A person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature.
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
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