You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.
He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
I want to be all used up when I die.
You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.
It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
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