The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Fear is the mother of morality.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

I have wondered about time all my life.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

That government is best which governs least.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

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

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.