Great Throughts Treasury

"Under every social skin there lurks some barbarism."

"When you cannot be just because of your nature, be so through your pride."

"Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?"

"There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul’s strength into all of your life’s actions."

"Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?"

"All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error."

"By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social order in which women will apply their intelligence and warm feelings to the problems of living. Men are fools to entrust the upbringing of their sons, whom they expect to grow up to love freedom, to women who have never known freedom themselves."

"If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you. When you cannot be just because of your nature, be so through your pride."

"Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need."

"Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love."