When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
Joseph Stalin

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
Saint Augustine

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Saint Augustine

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Voltaire

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Voltaire

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
Voltaire

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Voltaire

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
Voltaire

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
Voltaire

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire