Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

Whoever believes they are better than others and imposes their beliefs on others; they are against freedom and justice.

There are people in our lives who may know more about what's good for us than we do.

A man who starts imagining that others think good because he does is simply out of his mind. I've helped bury a few who did think that way... nice, peaceful men who wanted no trouble and made none.

When feeding time comes around there's nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

There’s no reason to assume that my idea of what‘s better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their ideas of betterness on me. I don’t think they know. And I can’t see any authority on the horizon that’s got any answers that seem worthwhile. Most of the things that are suggested are probably detrimental to your mental health.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.

Who, then, can be more ignorant of nature than he who classes this cruel and hurtful vice as belonging to her best and most polished work?

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

He whose will and desire in conversation is to establish his own opinion, even though what he says is true, should recognize that he is sick with the devil's disease.

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

A man who prides himself on going in a straight line through life is an idiot who believes in infallibility.

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.