There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thorns, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thorns and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

We are between the wild that of certainty and the mad similar of fact.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

What are you Tarzan?" he asked aloud. "An ape or a man? If you are an ape, you will do as the apes do - leave one of your kind in the jungle to die if it suited your whim to go elsewhere. If you are a man, you will return to protect your kind. You will not run away from one of your own people, because one has run away from you.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

What--has O-Tar seen an ULSI and fainted?" demanded NGOs with broad sarcasm." Men have died for less than that, ancient one," Ethan reminded him." I am safe," retorted NGOs, "for I am not a brave and popular son of the Jeddah of Manager.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

You didn't find any trace of her?" asked d'Arno. // Tarzan shook his head. "None. In the jungle, I could have found her; but here –-here, in civilization, a man cannot even find himself.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs