You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Jean Baudrillard

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Peace Pilgrim

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

Jamie Bell

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think.

Jill Bolte Taylor

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

Rosalia de Castro

Pride takes such natural possession of us in the midst of our woes, errors, etc. We even lose our life with joy, provided people talk of it.

Blaise Pascal

...Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

George Orwell

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

Roald Dahl

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather.

George Bernard Shaw