If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Jeremy Bentham

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

Previous to the time of Pascal, who would have thought of measuring doubt and belief? Who could have conceived that the investigation of petty games of chance would have led to the most sublime branch of mathematical science - the theory of probabilities?

William Stanley Jevons

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

F. W. Woolworth

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

Hannah Arendt

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Percy Wynham Lewis

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

Orville Wright

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

Richard Livingstone, On Educatio

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Aristotle

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James A. Garfield

It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.

Louis Ferdinand Celine

and the cost of a thing is the amountof what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it,immediately or in the long run

Henry David Thoreau