💬 Quotes

"Fear is the immediate cause of the majority of human ills. It is because of fear that men endure tyranny."

"We are a free people. We are a self-governing people. These are the delusions we are-fed with from the cradles."

"The working class has been cuffed and kick-ridden since the beginning of human history. It is a history of toil and misery."

"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

"They are slavish minds. They are dominated by the superstition that because they have permitted themselves to be exploited, they must always be exploited."

"History is a struggle between liberty and authority, and as we move forward, authority becomes ever more concentrated and ruthless."

"We seek him here, we seek him there, / Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. / Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell?— / That damned elusive Pimpernel."

"Men and women are all sunk so low nowadays, that they care for nothing save their own comfort and their own pleasure."

"League? What league? Ah, yes! A league of tender-hearted men and women, who love the excitement of a risky game, and care not a jot whether the neck that is stretched is that of an innocent man or a guilty aristocrat."

"A man's best friend is often his own secret; to share it is to invite betrayal."

"Curse the League! Curse the Scarlet Pimpernel! A thousand times dead, and yet alive—slipping through our fingers like water!"

"Love is blind, they say; but true love sees all, yet forgives all."

"Human nature is more interesting than I thought it would be. Had you ever a burning desire, my dear friend, to know what contigo goes on in people's breasts?"

"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove a very ridiculous person."

"The best form of government is that which makes the most of its men, and women too."

"Believe me, Hollingsworth, it is a terrible thing to think of the amount of earthly unhappiness, which you are striving to unyoke, only to substitute the one idea of your own mind."

"I looked at Zenobia's magnificent beauty, and shuddered;—it was the very type of womanhood, such as it was before moral judgments were superadded to physical desire."

"I have made a huge mistake. The blunder of my life is having come here, and thus been robbed of all the wholesome breath of life, by a society pretending to be grounded on 'human brotherhood'."

"An invisible man is a man of unmatched power, surely. But he is also a man of supreme isolation."

"To do such a thing would be to transcend the petty laws of men and nature alike."