Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

The king must die so that the country can live.

Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.

Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.

Nothing in the world is like this-a bright white page withpale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencilthe soft hush of itmoving finallyone dayinto letters.

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

Even though the third season of Necessary Roughness was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.

Every beginning is difficult, but it gets easier from there on

Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you.

my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.