"I hope in these days we have..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Genius is its own end.”

“Tis good-will makes intelligence.”

“We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.”

“All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.”

“Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you.”

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.”

“As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.”

“Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.”

“Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic”