True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Control healthcare and you control the people

Never let a crisis go to waste

History is a relay of revolutions.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable.

I enlarge the photo again. Nope, too blurry

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

I love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill.

Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.

Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.

Politicians are leeches, mostly.