If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
If not against us, nature is not for us.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.
If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
If plan A fails, there are still 25 letters of the alphabet.
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a God.
If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.
If the deer had guns too, then, and only then, would hunting truly be a sport.
If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You', that would suffice.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be-not understood, but divined.
If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows.
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of 10 it will.
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
If there were fish in a lake, fishing would not make sense.
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.
If we are bound to forgive an enemy,we are not bound to trust him.
If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
If we find a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
