It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
-- Noel Coward

Time is the fire in which we burn.
-- Gene Roddenberry

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry, too.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Biology is the last of what makes someone a mother.
-- Oprah Winfrey

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime & a fool's excuse for failure.
-- Ambrose Pierce

In Germany, they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then, they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics. I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up.
-- Rev. Martin Neimoller, German Lutheran pastor, arrested by the Gestapo in 1937

I diapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
-- Voltaire

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn people.
-- Heinrich Heine

There are two kinds of artists. Those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
-- Annie Lennox

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
-- Peter DeVries

Grace under pressure.
-- Definition of guts, Ernest Hemingway

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
-- Noam Chomsky

He who allows oppression shares the crime.
-- Erasmus Darwin

Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure of the former.
-- Albert Einstein

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.
-- P.J. O'Rourke

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
-- E.M. Cioran

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me. I quit."
-- Bill Maher

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
-- Oprah

Take away the right to say -fuck-, and you take away the right to say -fuck the government-.
-- Lenny Bruce

Only the supressed word is dangerous.
-- Ludwig Berne

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis

Poor is the man whose pleasure depend on the permission of another.
-- Madonna

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
-- Voltaire

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

A "no" uttered from the deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-- Isaac Asimov

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
-- Bertrand Russell

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
-- Eric Hoffer

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
-- Robert Anthony

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Hope in reality is the worst ofall evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
-- Friedrich Nietsche

One of my shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
-- Lars Ulrich

Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character.
-- Calvin and Hobbes

Running away will never make you free.
-- Kenny Loggins, I'm Free

Gonzo: I had that dream again.
Rizzo: You mean the one with the dwarf, the goat and the peanut butter?
Gonzo: Uh, no.
-- Muppets from Space

Better to die once and for all, than to live in continual terror.
-- Aesop

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
-- General George S. Patton, Jr.