Controversial Sayings

The government of a country by a mere numerical majority, is a thing which cannot be permanent.

The great advantage of the present-day bourgeoisie is to possess no moral, no ideal, no religion, no God, no sacred values.

Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting of nothing but jokes.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

A man's life is nothing but a slow trek to death.

The deaf should not intermarry.

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

The proletariat has nothing to lose but its chains. It has a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!

The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory.

The most depraved type of human being is the man who is happy to serve. A man who is happy to serve is a slave.

Civilization began the first time an angry man cast a stone instead of a word.

The path to the nucleus is easy to find, but the nucleus itself is hard to reach.

For the colonized subject, objectivity is always a weapon directed against him.

It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them.

The fight against tuberculosis is hopeless unless we attack the germ directly.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person who is crushed who feels it.

I grieve to say that I know of no country where the practice of dentistry is so atrocious as in England.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.