The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.

Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

Don't be bashful

I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.

When the dialogue is on point and I feel like the overall story and message is really serving something that's socially progressive, it really makes me want to be a part of it.

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

We do have more control over our lives than any politician.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.

There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.