Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.

Christopher Hitchens

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

Audre Lorde

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.

English Proverb

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Orson Scott Card

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.

Jeff Bridges

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Jonathan Davis

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Tom Stoppard

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves

William Blake

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Ruth Benedict