La force a fait les premiers esclaves, leur lâcheté les a perpétués. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Your beginning," he said to me, "is the rule of what will be required of you: seek to behave so as to do more afterwards, but watch out never to do less."

"The institutions of political society "bound new fetters on the poor and gave new powers to the rich; irretrievably destroyed natural liberty, fixed eternally the law of property and inequality, converted clever usurpation into unalterable right, and, for the advantage of a few ambitious individuals, subjected all mankind to perpetual labor, slavery and wretchedness

What I feel to be right is right, what I feel to be wrong is wrong...it is only when we haggle with conscience that we have recourse to the subtleties of argument