Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

You’d be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Between your faith and my Glock nine millimeter, I'll take the Glock.

In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.

echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.

I am a tomboy and I love being with the boys and shooting guns and stuff.

Online writing is supplementary, complementary, another part of the whole, something that's only as important as one's investment in it.

The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.