You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

There is no break in the wholeness of time.

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.

He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it.

God always prepare us for the great mission but we are unaware.All the stages are connected

The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.

You can't be an FBI agent without being cautious and thinking things through. That's just part of the training.

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.