Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

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.

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

No, of course not. I just feel content, ” she said carefully.“That’s an old person’s word, ” said Ethan.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.

If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.

If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.

If you lose interest in the dharma, then you might be reborn in a place where you are unlikely to meet with the dharma. And then you're completely off the path.