Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

My soul sees its equal in you.

...but beautiful mosaics are made of broken pieces.

Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain