Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

Harriet Martineau

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Barbra Streisand

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Samuel Butler

You can't apply the rules of a club to people who are not members of that club.

Penn Jillette

Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

The Talmud

I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.

Gary Burghoff

The fact that it had never been done before made it even more irresistible.

William Mcgovern

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

E. M. Cioran

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

Kevin J. Anderson

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

David Cronenberg

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Marcus Aurelius