You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Mikhail Bakunin

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

J. August Strindberg

Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.

Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

Carre Otis

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

Natalie Portman

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Mason Cooley

We can all make a difference. For the sake of humanity,we have too.

Timothy Pina

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Christopher Lasch

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

Source Unknown

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

Colin Quinn

So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

John Green