"The possession of power inevitably spoils the..." - Quote by Immanuel Kant

“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”

“Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.”

“It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.”

“The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.”

“An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.”

“The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.”

“Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.”

“Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”

“What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.”