Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

E.S. Barrett

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

John H. Patterson

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

William Blake

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

Mike Royko

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillionShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

Giovani della Casa

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Kurt Cobain

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heavenand there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Whether you think you can or you think you can't either way you are right!

Henry Ford

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Bono

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

H. Rap Brown

Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.

Lily Collins