Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery. |

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. |

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. |

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. |

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. |

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. |

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. |

A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline might take them. |

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. |

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up. |

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure. |

Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue. |

The law is an opinion with a gun. |

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth. |

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. |

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. |

Injustice in the end produces independence. |

Fascism is capitalism plus murder. |

It is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding. |

To repress what makes us unique is to artificially constrain all the potential we have to offer. |

In the midst of winter, I found in me an invincible summer. |

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. |

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. |

Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way. |