Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

All men are born free: just not for long.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

You should have died when I killed you.

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.

To live - is that not enough?

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.

Life is hard, money doesn't care, your tears don’t add value

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.