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.

If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.

It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.

Positive thoughts help us construct a positive life, one thought at a time.

I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!

Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.