Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

Hazel Scott

Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so clear to me. If you care to imagine what any inadequate or cruel man might do, given unlimited power over a woman, then anything that you can bring yourself to suspect was what became routine in ESMA, the Navy Mechanics School that became the headquarters of the business. I talked to Dr. Emilio Mignone, a distinguished physician whose daughter Monica had disappeared into the precincts of that hellish place. What do you find to say to a doctor and a humanitarian who has been gutted by the image of a starving rat being introduced to his daughter's genitalia? Like hell itself the school was endorsed and blessed by priests, in case any stray consciences needed to be stilled.

Christopher Hitchens

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.

Kurt Vonnegut

My dad played fiddle as well.

Robert Plant

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Konrad Lorenz

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. On being a high-profile social smoker

Kate Moss

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Winston Churchill

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

Isabel Allende

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

Sir Alec Guinness

Pray as if everything depends on God. Work as if everything depends on you.

Augustine of Hippo

Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.

Christopher Hitchens

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Alice Walker