Death comes to us all. Press me again and you shall find yours.

When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.

Whatever happens, it happens because we choose for it. We decide our fates.

We do not choose love. It claims each man as it will.

A man must accept his fate or be destroyed by it

And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.

I believe in opportunity and the power of reason to seize upon it.

No more than I was to be born.

Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free!

There is but one path. We must kill them all.

Gladiators seek to best all, it is how they survive

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . .

I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.

She seemed like a creature made to attract everyone and express nothing real, though it would take a master observer, like Magnus, to know it.

Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.

Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.