Satire

“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.”

“We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw.”

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.”

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

“For to err is human, and to forgive divine.”

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”

“The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.”

“It is public scandal that constitutes offence, and to sin in secret is not to sin at all.”

“Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.”

“People do not mind being wicked; but they object to being made ridiculous.”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. Nothing else.”