Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The Rich must live more simply so that the Poor may simply live.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Could I climb to the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim, "Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and take so little care of your children to whom one day you must relinquish it all?"

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

Corruption ought not to be an inevitable product of democracy.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.