It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians

Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness

In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth

A forest bird never wants a cage

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority

A community is like a ship everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!