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PASTOR. Violence aside now, admit that he suffers from fixed ideas. DOCTOR. I think your ideas are even more fixed, pastor! PASTOR

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

I dream, therefore I exist.

You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

but I so often forget what I know! QUARANTINE

You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!

Autumn is my spring!

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

- He really is the most arrogant person I've ever come across. 'I am, therefore God exists'. ALICE

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous!

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

LAWYER. Justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just! - - - Right, that so often fosters wrong!!! DAUGHTER

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past.
In silence you can't hide anything ... as you can in words.

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

Love between a man and woman is war.

As soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.

I so despise people who keep dogs, they are cowards that havent got the curridge to bite themselfs

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

When women grow old and cease being women, they get beards on their chins; I wonder what men get when they grow old and cease to be men?

Some people seem to be born to suffer.

When aristocrats pretend they're common people
they get common!

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

Every moment of enjoyment
Brings to some one else a sorrow,
But your sorrow gladdens no one,
For from sorrow naught but sorrow springs.

Speaking at last becomes a vice, like
drinking. And why speak, if words do not cloak thoughts ?

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

LAURA. Yes! It's strange, but I've never been able to look at a man without feeling I'm his superior. CAPTAIN

The further from one another, the nearer one can be.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.