To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Helen Keller

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Thomas Carlyle

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

Kerry Washington

I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened 'Briars;' go out upon that, build yourself a hut, and there begin the grand process of devouring yourself alive. I see no alternative, no other hope for you.

William Ellery Channing, Letter

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Dorothy Thompson

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism.

Aldous Huxley

I'm not stupid!' In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Orson Scott Card

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

Jules Renard

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

Cornel West

A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad.

Theodore Roosevelt, (attempting