"Society is a republic. When an individual..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”

“A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.”

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

“The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.”

“If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.”

“The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.”

“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.”

“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.”

“There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.”