Inspirational Quotes

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.