Smile, because it confuses people. Smile, because it’s easier than explaining what is killing you inside.

As you know, madness is like gravity…all it takes is a little push.

Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!

If you’re good at something, never do it for free.

Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos…

What doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stranger!

Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just… *do* things.

Tell your men they work for me now, this is my city!

It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message. Everything burns!

Let’s put a smile on that face!

Those mob fools want you gone. So they can get back to the way things were. But I know the truth, there’s no going back. You’ve changed things…forever.

And I thought my jokes were bad.

The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules. And tonight, you’re gonna break your one rule.

Do you want to know why I use a knife? You see, guns are too quick. You can’t savor all of the little…emotions. In their last moments, people show you who they really are. So in a way…I knew your friends better than you ever did. Would you like to know which of them were cowards?

Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos, I’m an agent of chaos , and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair.

I don’t wanna kill you, what would I do without you? Go back to rippin’ off mob dealers… no, no, no… no you, you complete me.

You can’t rely on anyone these days, you gotta do everything yourself, don’t we? That’s ok, I came prepared, it’s a funny world we live in. Speaking of which, you know how I got these scars?

I took gotham’s white knight and I brought ‘im down to our level. Madness, as you know, is a lot like gravity, all it takes is a little push.

If the police expect to play against the Joker, they’d better be prepared to be dealt from the bottom of the deck!

Very neat! That ugly head of yours does have a brain!

One by One, they’ll hear my call. Then this wicked town, will follow my fall.

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away… forever.

They could put me in a helicopter and fly me up into the air and line up the bodies head to toe on the ground in delightful geometric patterns like an endless June Taylor dance routine — and it would never be enough. No, I don’t keep count. But you do. And I love you for it.

April sweet is coming in, let the feast of fools begin!

Parting is such sweet sorrow, dearest. Still, you can’t say we didn’t show you a good time. Enjoy yourself out there… in the asylum. Just don’t forget — if it ever gets too tough… there’s always a place for you here.

And he didn’t die all at once. It was hours before the screaming stopped. I almost didn’t get to sleep that night. That was the last time I’d used crushed glass…

Live…and in person! The Caliph of Clowns, the Grand Mogul of Mountebanks, the One and Only JOKER! Prerecorded for this time zone.

The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction that somehow, somewhere, all of this makes sense! That’s what cracks me up each time!

Haven’t you ever heard of the healing power of laughter?

I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman.

The pen, is truly mightier than the sword!

Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.

Now you fellas have said some pretty mean things. Some of which *were* true under that fiend, Boss Grissom. He *was* a thief, and a terrorist. On the other hand he had a tremendous singing voice. He’s dead now, and he’s left me in charge. Now, I can be theatrical, and maybe even a little rough – but one thing I am not, is a *killer*. I am an artist. I *love* a good party. So, truce. Commence au festival!

I now do what other people only dream. I make art until someone dies. See? I am the world’s first fully functioning homicidal artist.

As though we were made for each other… Beauty and the Beast. Of course, if anyone else calls you beast, I’ll rip their lungs out.

I’m of a mind to make some mookie.

See, this is how crazy Batman’s made Gotham! If you want order in Gotham, Batman must take off his mask and turn himself in. Oh, and every day he doesn’t, people will die, starting tonight. I’m a man of my word.

It’s a funny world we live in. Speaking of which, do you know how I got these scars?

They need you right now, but when they don’t, they’ll cast you out like a leper!

Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick.

It’s not about money, it’a about sending a message. Everything burns!

We stopped checking for monsters under our bed, when we realized they were inside us.

The only sensible way to live is without rules.

I’m different, f*ck your opinion.

I like you, but I want to kill you.

Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are.

You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength.

Would ya like fries with that.

Tell me something, my friend, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

As my plastic surgeon always says; If you gotta go, go with a smile.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.

A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know its value by not having it.

The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property is safe.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

I had as well be killed running as die standing.

The destiny of the colored American … is the destiny of America.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost or trouble, to learn how to read.

The man who is right is a majority. We, who have God and conscience on our side, have a majority against the universe.

I know there is a hope in religion; I know there is faith and I know there is prayer about religion and necessary to it, but God is most glorified when there is peace on earth and good will towards men.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

Without education he lives within the narrow, dark and grimy walls of ignorance. Education, on the other hand, means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free. To deny education to any people is one of the greatest crimes against human nature. It is easy to deny them the means of freedom and the rightful pursuit of happiness and to defeat the very end of their being.

Old as the everlasting hills; immovable as the throne of God; and certain as the purposes of eternal power, against all hindrances, and against all delays, and despite all the mutations of human instrumentalities, it is the faith of my soul that this…cause will triumph.

Right is of no sex, truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren.

I love the religion of Christianity—which cometh from above—which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

I love that religion which sends its votaries to bind up the wounds of those who have fallen among thieves.

Men have their choice in this world. They can be angels, or they may be demons.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty.

Self-Made Men are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results. . . They are in a peculiar sense indebted to themselves for themselves.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

The next best thing to success is a valid apology for non-success. It possesses the means of covering the small with the glory of the great.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.

The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth.

People should not be afraid of their government, government should be afraid of their people.

There are no coincidences, only the illusion of coincidences.

The past can’t hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that’s not the real you. That’s not who you are inside.

That’s it! See, at first I thought it was hate, too. Hate was all I knew, it built my world, it imprisoned me, taught me how to eat, how to drink, how to breathe. I thought I’d die with all my hate in my veins. But then something happened. It happened to me… just as it happened to you.

A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.

Beneath this mask there is more than flesh Mr Creedy. Beneath this mask there is an idea. And ideas are bulletproof.

We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world.

Evey: Are you like a crazy person?
V: I am quite sure they will say so.

A man after my own heart.

No one will ever forget that night and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.

There is no certainty, only opportunity.

Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch, we are free.

A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world.

I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke.

Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot.

Artists use lies to tell the truth while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

V: What was done to me created me. It’s a basic principle of the universe that every action causes an equal and opposing reaction.
Evey: Is that really how you look at it? Like an equation…?
V: What was done to me was monstrous!
Evey: And it created a monster…

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

My mother said I broke her heart…but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it’s all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us…but within that inch we are free.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It’s small and it’s fragile and it’s the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

God is in the rain.

They say that life’s a game, & then they take the board away.

Love your rage, not your cage.

Fear became the ultimate tool of this government.

One thing is true of all governments – their most reliable records are tax records.

No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty, I’m no longer standing, because if I am… you’ll all be dead before you’ve reloaded.

If our own government was responsible for the deaths of almost a hundred thousand people… would you really want to know?

I wish I wasn’t afraid all the time, but… I am.

Defiant to the end, huh? You won’t cry like him, will you? You’re not afraid of death. You’re like me.

We are being buried under the avalanche of your inadequacies, Mr. Creedy!

I want this country to realize that we stand on the edge of oblivion. I want everyone to remember why they need us!

Evey, please. . .there is a face beneath this mask, but it’s not me. I’m no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath them.

It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence.

I read that the former United States is so desperate for medical supplies, they’ve alledgedly sent several containers filled with wheat and tobacco. A gesture, they said, of good will.

I think it’s high time we paid them [the former United States] back for a little “Tea Party” they threw for us a few hundred years ago!

Because he was right. This country needs more than a building right now. It needs hope.

If I am sure of anything, Inspector, it is that this government will not survive if it is to be subject to your feelings!

Words will always retain their power. Words are the means to meaning, and for those who listen, the enunciation of truth, and the truth is there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there?

My father was a writer. You would have like him. He used to say that artists use lies to tell the truth while politicians used them to cover the truth up.

Mr. Finch: Who was he?
Evey Hammond: He was Edmond Dantes, and he was my father and my mother, my brother, my friend. He was you and me. He was all of us.

I wish I believed that was possible. But every time I’ve seen this world change, it’s always been for the worse.

I remember them arguing at night. Mum wanted to leave the country. Dad refused. He said if we ran away, they would win. Win, like it was a game.

By the power of truth, I while living have conquered the universe.

I worried about myself for a while. But one day I was at a market and a friend, someone I’d worked with at the BTN, got in line behind me. I was so nervous that when the cashier asked me for my money I dropped it. My friend picked it up and handed it to me. She looked me right in the eye and didn’t recognise me. I guess whatever you did to me worked better than I’d ever have imagined.

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed’s lending programs during the financial crisis.

Difficult times often bring out the best in people.

Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment – money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.

Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas – they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.

I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

What my campaign is about is a political revolution – millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%… No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process.

What democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own almost 90 percent – almost – own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That it is wrong, today, in a rigged economy, that 57 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. That when you look around the world, you see every other major country providing health care to all people as a right, except the United States.

The struggle to create a nation and world of economic and social justice and environmental sanity is not an easy one. The struggle to try and create a more peaceful world will be extremely difficult. But this I know: despair is not an option if we care about our kids and grandchildren. Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.
Bernie Sanders

Americans’ right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.

It’s better to show up than to give up.

I believe when we stand together, when we share the vision that government should work for all of us, there is nothing we can’t accomplish.

Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.

Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.

I’m not much into speculation.

People in American jails are disproportionately people of color. That’s the reality in America today. That’s a reality that has to change.

You can have a different point of view on immigration or anything else, but we cannot be attacking people because of their religion.

We must not accept a nation in which billionaires compete as to the size of their super-yachts, while children in America go hungry.

This looks to me like a group of people who are prepared to make a political revolution.

It’s unacceptable that millions of college graduates can’t afford to buy their first home or car because of outrageously high student debt.

Young people in this country know exactly what they’re doing. They know we need big change, not just small steps.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless of the income of their family. This is not a radical idea. In Germany, Scandinavia and many other countries, higher education is either free or very inexpensive. We must do the same.

Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York – as well as many state colleges – were tuition free. Today college is unaffordable for many working class families. For the sake of our economy and millions of Americans, we must make higher education more affordable.

How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.

Student debt is crushing the lives of millions of Americans. How does it happen that we can get a home mortgage or purchase a car with interest rates half of that being paid for student loans? We must make higher education affordable for all. We must substantially lower interest rates on student loans. This must be a national priority.

At rallies in Vermont and across the country this weekend, our message was clear. We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women’s rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

I have a lifetime 100% pro-choice voting record. I understand that people disagree on this issue, but I believe that it is a woman’s decision, it’s a difficult decision, but it’s a decision between her and her physician. I will do everything that I can in 50 states of this country to make sure that women have a choice.

Not only are we going to expand policies that advance gender equality, we are going to fight to pass the long-overdue Equal Rights Amendment and vigorously defend the critical laws and programs which protect all working people in our country.

Rich get richer. Everyone else gets poorer. And all these guys can talk about is war and defunding Planned Parenthood.

The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.

I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.

If you can’t afford to take care of your #?!# veterans , then don’t go to war.

If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now.

A nation will not surve morally or economically when so few have so much, while so many have so little.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

Message to the billionaire class: You can’t have it all!

The billionaire class fully understands what is at stake. That’s why a handful of them are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the current elections. Their goal is not to strengthen the middle class, but continue the trend in which the rich are getting richer at the expense of everyone else.

Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.

We will not accept a society in which the very rich get richer, while almost everyone else becomes poorer.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Be as you wish to seem.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

I thought to myself, ‘I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

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

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Those who are hardest to love, need it the most.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

An open heart is an open mind.

An eye for an eye….we are all blind.

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

If it can be solved, there’s no need to worry, and if it can’t be solved, worry is of no use.

When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

Follow the three R’s: – Respect for self. – Respect for others. – Responsibility for all your actions.

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

We need to learn to want what we have, not to have what we want, in order to get stable and steady happiness.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

The world doesn’t belong to leaders. The world belongs to all humanity.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

I don’t know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman’s hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.

Decorum — that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence–but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence— whether much that is glorious— whether all that is profound— does not spring from disease of thought— from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

Love like mine can never be gotten over.

Melancholy is … the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

By the dim light of an accidental lamp, tall, antique, worm-eaten, wooden tenements were seen tottering to their fall, in directions so many and capricious, that scarce the semblance of a passage was discernible between them.

But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.

A sombre yet beautiful and peaceful gloom here pervaded all things … the shade of the trees fell heavily upon the water, and seemed to bury itself therein, impregnating the depths of the element with darkness.

A novelist, for example, need have no care of his moral. It is there — that is to say, it is somewhere — and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves. When the proper time arrives, all that the gentleman intended, and all that he did not intend, will be brought to light, in the “Dial,” or the “Down-Easter,” together with all that he ought to have intended, and the rest that he clearly meant to intend: — so that it will all come very straight in the end.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine…

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world — and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active –not more happy –nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

There are two bodies — the rudimental and the complete ; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call “death,” is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell — but the imagination of man is no Carathis, to explore with impunity its every cavern. Alas! the grim legion of sepulchral terrors cannot be regarded as altogether fanciful — but, like the Demons in whose company Afrasiab made his voyage down the Oxus, they must sleep, or they will devour us — they must be suffered to slumber, or we perish.

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!

From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—

It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible, aren’t you? You won’t kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won’t kill you because you’re just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever.

He’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

Don’t talk like one of them. You’re not! Even if you’d like to be. To them, you’re just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don’t, they’ll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it’s a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They’re only as good as the world allows them to be. I’ll show you. When the chips are down, these… these civilized people, they’ll eat each other. See, I’m not a monster. I’m just ahead of the curve.

When Gotham is ashes, you have my permission to die.

You are as precious to me as you were to your own mother and father. I swore to them that I would protect you, and I haven’t.

The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.

I knew Harvey Dent. I was his friend. And it will be a very long time before someone… Inspires us the way he did. I believed in Harvey Dent.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Drive sports cars, date movie stars, buy things that are not for sale… who knows, Master Wayne? You start pretending to have fun, you might even have a little by accident.

Bats frighten me. It’s time my enemies share my dread.

Perhaps the knife was too slow.

Tell me where the trigger is, then you have my permission to die.

You’ll hunt me. You’ll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that’s what needs to happen. Because sometimes truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.

People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.

It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

I’m whatever Gotham needs me to be.

Not everything. Not yet.

I won’t kill you, but I don’t I have to save you.

A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy’s shoulders to let him know the world hadn’t ended.

It’s not about what I want. It’s about what’s fair!

The public likes you. That’s the only reason that this might fly, but it’s all on you. They’re all gonna come after you, now. Politicians, journalists, cops. Anyone whose wallet is about to get tight. Are you up for it? You better be. Cause if they get anything on you, those criminals are put back on the streets, followed swiftly by you and me.

Because we have to chase him. Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now, so we’ll hunt him. Because he can take it, because he’s not a hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a Dark Knight.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Gambol: You’re just a freak in a cheap suit.
Joker: The suit, it ain’t cheap, you oughta know you bought it.

Carbon fibre, 28 calibre, Made in China, if you want to kill a public servant Mr Maroni i recommend you buy American.

Alfred: Shall you be taking the Batpod sir?
Batman/Bruce Wayne: In the middle of the day Alfred?
Alfred: The Lamborghini then? Much more subtle.

Batman/Bruce Wayne: That wasn’t exactly what I had in mind when, uh, I said I wanted to inspire people.
Alfred: I know.

Batman/Bruce Wayne: Targeting me won’t get their money back. I knew the mob wouldn’t go down without a fight, but this is different. They crossed the line.
Alfred: You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn’t fully understand.

This city just showed you that it’s full of people ready to believe in good.

Gotham, take control… take control of your city. Behold, the instrument of your liberation! Identify yourself to the world!

Some men aren’t looking for anything logical like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with.

It’s not who we are underneath, but what we do that defines us.

Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.

Why so serious?

You’re not the devil. You’re practice

You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time! But you were wrong. The world is cruel.

It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Speak of the devil and he shall appear.

Now’s not the time for fear. That comes later.

The first time I stole so that I wouldn’t starve, I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong. And when I traveled, I learned the fear before a crime and the thrill of success. But I never became one of them.

A criminal is not complicated. What you really fear is inside yourself. You fear your own power. You fear your anger, the drive to do great or terrible things.

Justice is balance. You burned my house and left me for dead. Consider us even.

Bruce…if you turn yourself in, they’re not gonna let us be together.

You care about justice? Look beyond your own pain, Bruce. This city is rotting. People talk about the depression as if it’s history. It’s not. Things are worse than ever down here.

They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear. But the night my parents were murdered I caught a glimpse of something. I’ve looked for it ever since. I went around the world, searched in all the shadows. And there is something out there in the darkness, something terrifying, something that will not stop until it gets revenge… Me.

You cannot lead these men unless you are prepared to do what is necessary to defeat evil.

Bats may be, but even for billionaire playboys, three o’clock is pushing it. The price of leading a double life, I fear. Your theatrics made an impression.

A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.

You have learned to bury your guilt with anger. I will teach you to confront it, and to face the truth. You know how to fight six men. We can teach you how to engage six hundred. You know how to disappear. We can teach you to become truly invisible.

If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. … Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it’s dark around you.

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more.

He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can.

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.

Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

Love the life you live. Live the life you love.

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

And don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there.

Conquer the devils with a little thing called love.

He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.

If puss and dog can get together, why can’t we love one another?

If you get down and quarrel everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Love would never leave us alone.

One love, one heart, Let’s get together and feel alright.

Overcome the devils with a thing called love.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that’s why I’m scared when you say you love me.

There will never be no love at all.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

In this bright future you can’t forget your past.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Don’t trust people whose feelings change with time. Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.

Don’t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Most people think great god will come from the skies, take away everything, and make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

Man is a universe within himself.

I have a BMW. But only because BMW stands for and The Wailers, and not because I need an expensive car.

Money can’t buy life.

Your life is worth much more than gold.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can’t refuse it what to be got to be.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

One good thing about music—when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Musicians must be spokespeople for the oppressed masses.

Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that’s why I’m scared when you say you love me.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.

Men and people will fight you down when you see the light. Let me tell you if you are not wrong than everything is all right.

I’n’I nah come to fight flesh and blood, But spiritual wickedness in ‘igh and low places. So while they fight you down, Stand firm and give Jah thanks and praises. ‘Cos I’n’I no expect to be justified by the laws of men – by the laws of men. Oh, true they have found me guilty, But through – through Jah proved my innocency.

yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn’t want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music

Set it up in Zimbabwe, Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality. So arm in arms, with arms, we’ll fight this little struggle, ‘Cause that’s the only way we can overcome our little trouble.

You find strength in knowing that you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end.

Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I’m not perfect
-and I don’t live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers…
make sure you hands are clean!

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Tell the children the truth.

We are the children of the Rastaman we are the children of the higher man.

Never let the children cry,
Cause you got to tell Jah, Jah why

Children are wonderful. It don’t take plenty y’know. Just a nice girl who don’t take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

I’ll push the wood, then I blaze ya fire, then I’ll satisfy your heart’s desire – Stir it Up

Make love and not war, ’cause we don’t need no trouble. What we need is love, to guide and protect us on. If you hope good down from above, help the weak if you are strong now. – No More Trouble

Good friends we have, good friends we have lost along the way. In this great future, you can’t forget your past, so dry your tears, I say. – No Woman, No Cry

Why not help each other on the way? Make it much easier. – Positive Vibration

Say you just can’t live that negative way, if you know what I mean. Make way for the positive day – Positive Vibration

You’re gonna walk back through the heartaches, you’re gonna walk back through the pain. Shed those lonely teardrops: the reaction of your cheating game. – Cry to Me

Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living? – Exodus

I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love. – Waiting in Vain

From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl, my heart says follow through.- Waiting in Vain

In life I know there’s lots of grief, but your love is my relief. -Waiting in Vain

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.

In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.

Judge not, before you judge yourself.

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don’t make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

Keep calm and chive on.

When the root is strong, the fruit is sweet.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God–what? perhaps a “world”?

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed.

Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

The concepts “beyond” and “real world” were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

Christianity has a hunter’s instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair –although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them.

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

The concepts “soul”, “spirit” and last of all the concept “immortal soul” were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick — “holy” — in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

”God”, “the immortality of the soul”, “salvation”, “the beyond”—even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them—maybe I was never childish enough for that?

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers—fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Without music, life would be a mistake… I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Only sick music makes money today.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event – and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

Human, all too human.

The overman…Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life’s terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

…throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride – they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

My idea is that every specific body strives to become master over all space and to extend its force (–its will to power:) and to thrust back all that resists its extension. But it continually encounters similar efforts on the part of other bodies and ends by coming to an arrangement (“union”) with those of them that are sufficiently related to it: thus they then conspire together for power. And the process goes on–

The possibility has been established for the production of…a Master Race, the future “masters of the earth”…made to endure for millennia – a higher kind of men who… employ democratic Europe as their most pliant and supple instrument for getting hold of the destinies of the earth.

There is only nobility of birth, only nobility of blood. When one speaks of “aristocrats of the spirit,” reasons are usually not lacking for concealing something. As is well known, it is a favorite term among ambitious Jews. For spirit alone does not make noble. Rather, there must be something to ennoble the spirit. What then is required? Blood.

The homogenizing of European man… requires a justification: it lies in serving a higher sovereign species that stands upon the former which can raise itself to its task only by doing this. Not merely a Master Race whose sole task is to rule, but a Race with its own sphere of life, with an excess of strength… strong enough to have no need of the tyranny of the virtue-imperative.

The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence – here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for “laws.”

A declaration of war on the masses by Higher Men is needed!… Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the People or the Feminine, works in favor of Universal Suffrage, i.e. the domination of the Inferior Men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

A declaration of war on the masses by Higher Men is needed! … Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the People or the Feminine, works in favor of Universal Suffrage, i.e. the domination of the Inferior Men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.

The Beautiful exists just as little as the True. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the True in different things than will the Overman.

Art is the proper task of life.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge….

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service.’

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy. Frenzy must first have enhanced the excitability of the whole machine; else there is no art. All kinds of frenzy, however diversely conditioned, have the strength to accomplish this: above all, the frenzy of sexual excitement, this most ancient and original form of frenzy.

We shall do a great deal for the science of esthetics, once we perceive not merely by logical inference, but with the immediate certainty of intuition, that the continuous development of art is bound up with the Apollonian and Dionysian duality: just as procreation depends on the duality of the sexes, involving perpetual strife with only periodically intervening reconciliations.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: “Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!” And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep – into evil.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

What we experience in dreams – assuming that we experience it often – belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced “actually”: we are richer or poorer on account of it.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.

[Anything which] is a living and not a dying body… will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant – not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power… ‘Exploitation’… belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.

What we experience in dreams — assuming that we experience it often — belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced “actually”: we are richer or poorer on account of it.

Physiologists should think twice before positioning the drive for self-preservation as the cardinal drive of an organic being. Above all, a living thing wants to discharge its strength – life itself is will to power -: self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent consequences of this.