Robert G. Ingersoll

Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.

W przyrodzie nie ma nagród ani kar - tylko konsekwencje.

In nature there are neither rewards. nor punishments -- there are consequences.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result.

Fortunately for us, there have been traitors and there have been heretics, blasphemers, thinkers, investigators, lovers of liberty, men of genius who have given their lives to better the condition of their fellow-men. It may be well enough here to ask the question: What is greatness? A great man adds to the sum of knowledge, extends the horizon of thought, releases souls from the Bastille of fear, crosses unknown and mysterious seas, gives new islands and new continents to the domain of thought, new constellations to the firmament of mind. A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains he gives to others. A great man throws pearls before swine, and the swine are sometimes changed to men. If the great had always kept their pearls, vast multitudes would be barbarians now. A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon: in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. Greatness is not the gift of majorities; it cannot be thrust upon any man; men cannot give it to another; they can give place and power, but not greatness. The place does not make the man, nor the scepter the king. Greatness is from within.

To, co [chrześcijańscy królowie] nazywają pokojem, to krótki czas spędzony na konieczności przeładowywania broni.

What [Christian kings] call peace is the little time necessarily spent in reloading their guns