The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Usually, if you think something's wrong, it probably is...

Jayce O'Neal

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

Yoko Ono

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

Benjamin Franklin

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Josh Billings

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

John Cheever

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Thomas Merton

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Carl Jung

Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partition in Kashmir, or the woes of the Chechens and Kosovars. But the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face, and there's no point in any euphemism about it. What they abominate about 'the West,' to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state. Loose talk about chickens coming home to roost is the moral equivalent of the hateful garbage emitted by Falwell and Robertson, and exhibits about the same intellectual content.

Christopher Hitchens

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

Marshall McLuhan

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Frank Zappa

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

Michelle Rodriguez