The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Sir Winston Churchill, November

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.

Virginia Woolf

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them

Abraham Lincoln

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

Joyce Carol Oates

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

John Buchan

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

Grover Norquist

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

Billie Holiday

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Benjamin Franklin

I try to act out of faith.

Marian Wright Edelman

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Katherine Mansfield