His idea was that humans totally lose control of their behavior in a crowd.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
I have found so much beauty in the dark,as I have found a lot of horror in the light.
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that...
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.