With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.
The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
Wickedness is its own punishment.
Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.