it is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore them to their lost dignity - and make them a part of the human species... More...

The book that created the modern United States, Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision of a just society. More...

Unproductive consumption of goods is honourable... More...

It was sheer thoughtlessness that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of the period... More...

If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair? More...

It is necessary to have a master who by his teaching and precepts stirs and awakens the moral virtues whose seed is enclosed and buried in our souls... More...

The Meditations of the great Roman Philosopher-Emperor Marcus Aurelius are simple yet profound works of stoic philosophy. More...

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider... More...

Ruskin's treatise on the need for individual artistic freedom remains powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today. More...

"Montaigne is one of the great sages of that modern world which in a sense began with the Renaissance. He is the bridge linking the thought of pagan antiquity and of Christian antiquity with our own" -M.A. Screech More...

Charles Darwin's seismic theory of evolution turned the Victorian world upside down, utterly rewrote our notions of life on earth, and is still attacked by religious creationists today. More...

"Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal" -William Hazlitt More...

Life is long if you know how to use it... More...

Strike with chaos... More...

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose except their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite! More...

"We are all frail; consider none more frail than yourself." More...

"One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves" -Machiavelli, The Prince More...

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains... More...

Our human race can only achieve happiness if love reaches its conclusion... More...