A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism.

Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.

ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow. the songs are honest and dimensional. it's music to my ears.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

Animals are not here for our entertainment.

How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.