All Sayings

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.

I am a living demonstration of the fact that a man can remain a virgin until he is 30, and yet be a man.

The world is hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, too resourceful for anyone to be able to satisfy me sensibly.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

The meaning of a word is its use in the language.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin; the Communists are a disease of the heart.

I hate the word 'facts.' I like the word 'truth.'

We are wont to imagine that it would be a pleasant pastime to be a potato and grow in the dark, but it is not so.

The state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

I am not afraid that they will find bad governments, but that they will find governments that are not interested in the well-being of the people.

If a man is right, he has no reason to fear the judgment of others. If he is wrong, he has no reason to wish that judgment withheld.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

I was often so tormented by unanswerable questions that I would put my head down on the table and cry.

A person does not act upon the world, the world acts upon him.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The metropolis, which is the seat of the money economy, is the place of this highest development of individuality.