All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Any person under the age of thirty, who, having any knowledge of the existing social order, is not a revolutionist, is an inferio
I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.
The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.