Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!

The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.

Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it.

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

I still deliver like a midwife

The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.

Do you have any coffee? (Talon) Ew! No, that stuff will kill you. I have herbal teas, though. (Sunshine) Herbal teas? That’s mulch, not a beverage. (Talon)

Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.