Dolores Ibarruri
Henrik Ibsen
Ivan Illich
William Ralph Inge
Robert Green Ingersoll
Eugene Ionesco
Isocrates
Molly Ivans
� 1997 E-mail me
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking man is bound to rebel against. Who makes up the majority in any given country? Is it the wise men or the fools? I think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority, all the wide world over.
You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
The thing is, you see, that the strongest man in the world is the man who stands most alone.
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but clearly all religions come from that hope.
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Of all our possessions wisdom alone is immortal.
If you truly wished to find out what is best for the country you would listen more to those who oppose you than to those who try to please you.
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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