"Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward..." - Quote by Diogenes

“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”

“Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.”

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.”

“All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”

“Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.”

“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.”

“When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.”

“If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.”

“What is life? A continuous praise and blame.”