We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

Robert Burton

All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true in itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, chapte

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Walter Lippmann

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

Shaquille O'Neal

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

Joaquin Phoenix

Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child.

Deepa Bhushan

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Khalil Gibran

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

William Butler Yeats

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Victor Hugo

I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

John Green

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Carl Schurz