Classic Quotes Collection

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer

Democracy is the road to socialism.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.

Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.