Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

Can you, at a minimum, objectively step back—throw out the stereotypes, ditch the conformity, set aside the religion—and ask yourself, why? Why Jesus?

One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job.

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Learn from yesterday, live for today.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.