Not to punish evil is the equivalent to authorizing it.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.