There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Never allow your short term temperament to affect your long term decisions.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

The only way you can reach your full potential is if you open up and allow your self to be exposed to how you really feel.

I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

I like to set realistic goals for myself, not outrageous ones.

No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always someone who can beat you.

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love

I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.