Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.

The greywastes was a basin overflowing with insanity, the very earth underneath me was only surviving because it was too mad to know it had died

Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.

Ya hafta be there for Beck. He only has you." Riley sighed. "I'll get the car.

The main thing is, believe in yourself. Reach out and go after it.

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

Honestly, self-care is not fluffy - it's something we should take seriously.

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

I was particularly good at math and science.