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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.