Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Everyone may be called "comrade, " but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

Work is the greatest thing in the world. So we should save some of it for tomorrow.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee; Betwixt the stirrop and the ground, Mercy I askt, mercy I found.