Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.Simone Weil
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.Simone Weil
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.Karl Lagerfeld
I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.Karl Lagerfeld
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.Plutarch
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.Michel de Montaigne
