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“Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.”
“In order to ameliorate without commotion new institutions must be made, as it were, to rise out of those which the barbarism of centuries has consecrated. It will one day seem incredible that until the year 1826 there existed no law in the Great Antilles to prevent the sale of young infants and their separation from their parents, or to prohibit the degrading custom of marking the negroes with a hot iron, merely to enable these human cattle to be more easily recognized.”
“The principal impulse by which I was directed was the earnest endeavor to comprehend the phenomena of physical objects in their general connection, and to represent nature as one great whole, moved and animated by internal forces. My intercourse with highly”
“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more enobled by mental cultivation than others, but none in themselves nobler than others. All are in like degree designed for freedom; a freedom which, in the ruder conditions of society, belongs only to the individual, but which, in social states enjoying political institutions, appertains as a right to the whole body of the community.”
“From the remotest nebulæ and from the revolving double stars, we have descended to the minutest organisms of animal creation, whether manifested in the depths of ocean or on the surface of our globe, and to the delicate vegetable germs which clothe the naked declivity of the ice”
“Rien ne réussit comme le succès. Nothing succeeds like success .”
“Ange Pitou , Vol. 1 chapter 7 (1854).”
“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage”
“* My father was a mulatto , my grandfather was a Negro, and my great”
“Tous pour un, un pour tous, c'est notre devise All for one, one for all , that is our motto.”
“Ch. 9: D'Artagnan Shows Himself.”
“Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents ! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile . Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.”
“weep, heart full of love , youth, and life ! Alas, would I could weep like you!”
“You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances." Ch. 67: Conclusion.”
“Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man ; royalty is the spirit of God . When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.”
“I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life. As quoted in Nobel, Dynamite and Peace (1929) by Ragnar Sohlman and Henrik Schück, as translated by Brian Lunn and Beatrix Lunn, p. 249; also quoted by Lester B. Pearson in his address on accepting the Nobel Peace Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway (10 December 1957) .”
“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. As quoted in The 12 best Questions To Ask Customers (2001), by Jim Meisenheimer, p. 26.”
“My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace. As quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 114.”
“A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.”
“Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.”
“Contentment is the only real wealth”
“We build upon the sand, and the older we become, the more unstable this foundation becomes.”
“The truthful man is usually a liar.”
“Justice is to be found only in the imagination.”
“It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.”
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14 .”
“He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain. Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992).”
“A long walk to freedom”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. As quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin, p. 173.”
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet. From the film poster for Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth .”