Do we want to feel better or do we want to be effective? Are we sentimentalists or are we warriors?

Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's just in the United States.

Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action.

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.

Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.

What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism.

This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace issue.

In order to live up to your full potential on earth, you must always challenge and replace any thought or belief that goes against your happiness and success.

The picture of me just after I’d found out Aspen was saving up to marry me. I looked radiant, hopeful, beautiful. I looked like I was in love. And some idiot thought that love was for Prince Maxon.

The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.

(about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl)

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

Gold has no increasing value. And if you're really worried about, say, inflation rising, I would buy Spam. You know, you can eat Spam. You cannot eat gold.

The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.