“down with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel.”

“There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?”

“The press to-day is an army with carefully organized arms and branches, with journalists as officers, and readers as soldiers. But here, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and war-aims and operation-plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows, nor is allowed to know, the purposes for which he is used, nor even the role that he is to play. A more appalling caricature of freedom of thought cannot be imagined. Formerly a man did not dare to think freely. Now he dares, but cannot; his will to think is only a willingness to think to order, and this is what he feels as his liberty.”

“I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.”

“It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.”

“Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.”

“The startled terror of remorse that dares not think of what it fears, is as inconsistent as all other human feelings.”

“Dare to think!”

“With thinking men, the question can never arise, who ought to be free? Because no one ought to be free. All government is slavery.”

“These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad. (translator Henry Thomas Riley)”
Non optuma haec sunt neque ut ego aequom censeo : verum meliora sunt quam quae deterruma.