Interesting Quotes that I found on Goodreads

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” - Buddha

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool." - Carl Jung

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." - Sydney J. Harris

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” - George Orwell

“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.” - M.K. Gandhi

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend only a little of this mystery every day.” – Albert Einstein

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” - Abraham Lincoln

“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?” - George Deacon

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?” - Ayn Rand

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.” - Abigail Van Buren

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”- Mark Twain

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” - Socrates

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” - Albert Einstein

Hunting is sacred, little brother. It is our right. But we never do it for sport. Shh... Wait. Wait. We look them in the eye... so that the soul... doesn't depart, alone. - Bagheera to Mowgli

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" - George Carlin

“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.” - Elie Wiesel

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.” - Socrates

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” - Ayn Rand

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” - Mark Twain

“Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.” - J. Krishnamurti

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” -  Socrates

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.” - Mark Twain

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” - Bertrand Russell

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.” - Hayao Miyazaki

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” - Abraham Lincoln

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - M. K. Gandhi

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.” - V. S. Naipaul

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Bernard M. Baruch

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.” - Ayn Rand

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ” - Roseanne Barr

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” - Mark Twain

"The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground." - Buddha

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” - C.E.M. Joad

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” - Socrates

“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.” - Ayn Rand

“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.” - Marilyn Monroe

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”

- Mark Twain

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” - Salman Rushdie

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar” - Abraham Lincoln

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“In Germany they came first for the Communists,

and I didn't speak up

because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,

and I didn't speak up

because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,

and I didn't speak up

because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,

and I didn't speak up

because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me,

and by that time no one was left

to speak up for me.”  - Martin Niemöller

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

- Mark Twain

“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.” - Ayn Rand

“The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.” - Lily Tomlin

“One person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.” - Susan Sontag

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking." - Virginia Woolf

"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." - Otto von Bismarck

“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” - Mike Tyson

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” - Socrates

“People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." - Winston S. Churchill

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." - Sydney J. Harris

“It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.” - Bertrand Russell

"Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes." - George Carlin

“They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.” - Dinos Christianopoulos

“Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.” - Ayn Rand

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”

- Mark Twain

“We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which

nobody understands anything about science and technology, and

this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is

going to blow up in our faces. I mean, who is running the science and

technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about

it? Science is more than a body of knowledge, it’s a way of thinking. If

we are not able to ask skeptical questions to interrogate those who tell

us something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re

up for grabs for the next charlatan political or religious leader who

comes ambling along. It’s a thing that Jefferson lay great stress on.

It wasn’t enough, he said, to enshrine some rights in the Constitution

and the Bill of Rights, the people had to be educated and they have to

practice their skepticism and their education. Otherwise, we don’t run

the government, the government runs us." - Carl Sagan

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” - Carl R. Rogers

“When I say 'hero', do not picture someone with strength to fight and conquer evil – because evil is not something that can ever be conquered or defeated. Evil is natural. It is innate in all humans. But while it can't be defeated... it can be controlled. In order to control it, and live the life of a true hero, you must learn to see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.” - Hayao Miyazaki

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” - Socrates

“I do not wish them (women) to have power over men; but over themselves.” - Mary Wollstonecraft

"We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as we persist in self-centeredness. That could be a lengthy stretch of time. However, it is just as certain that we shall continue to cast a skeptical and ironic and even witty eye on what we have ourselves invented. If religion is innate in us, then so is our doubt of it and our contempt for our own weakness." - Christopher Hitchens

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.” - Ayn Rand

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”

- Mark Twain

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” - Marie Curie

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.” - Oscar Wilde

“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.” - George Orwell

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” - J. Krishnamurti

“How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.” - Kristin Cashore

“The best way out is always through.” - Robert Frost

“I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.” - George Orwell

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.” - Charlotte Brontë 

“We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.” - Ayn Rand

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - M. K. Gandhi

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” - Aristotle

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” - Socrates

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.” - Abraham Lincoln

“We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"He- and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly." - George Carlin

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a

listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all

of which have the potential to turn a life around.” - Leo F. Buscaglia

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

- Mark Twain

"Revenge is good for your health, but pain will find you again." - Dad-su Oh in Oldboy

"It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." - Rachel Dawes to Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins

“Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend.” - Mike Tyson

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Socrates

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." - M. K. Gandhi

“‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.” - Salman Rushdie

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.” - Dale Carnegie

“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves. No matter what corruption they're taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which they cannot perform for any motive but their own enjoyment - just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity! - an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exultation, only on the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire. It is an act that forces them to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body, and accept their real ego as their standard of value. They will always be attracted to the person who reflects their deepest vision of themselves, the person whose surrender permits them to experience - or to fake - a sense of self-esteem .. Love is our response to our highest values - and can be nothing else.” - Ayn Rand

“Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.” - Blaise Pascal

“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.” - George Carlin

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” - John Steinbeck

“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Few people have the imagination for reality.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Tell me how much you have entered into the suffering of those around you, and I will tell you how much you love them.” - Martin Niemöller

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”

- Mark Twain

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." - Socrates

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” - Ayn Rand

“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.” - Charles Darwin

“I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.” - M.K. Gandhi

“One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.” - Hunter S. Thompson

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.” - Socrates

“Comparison is the death of joy.” - Mark Twain

“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.” - Ossie Davis

“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

- Mark Twain

“Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.” - Ayn Rand

“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.” - V.S. Naipaul

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity." - Robert G. Ingersoll about Abraham Lincoln

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” - George Orwell

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?” - Shannon L. Alder

“I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.” - Hayao Miyazaki

“To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.” - Salman Rushdie

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” - Albert Einstein

“What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.” - Ayn Rand

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Ernest Hemingway

“Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines." - George Orwell

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

- Mark Twain

“When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.” - Michael Ende

“To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.” - George Bernard Shaw

“In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.” - Socrates

“Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.” - Ayn Rand

“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.” - Blaise Pascal

“The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.” - Sydney J. Harris

“I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.” - M.K. Gandhi

“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”

- Mark Twain

“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. ” - Hannah Arendt

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.” - Bertrand Russell

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind

Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” - Euripides

“Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.” - Socrates

“Show me the incentive, and I will show you the outcome.” - Charlie Munger

"If your actions inspire others

to dream more, learn more,

do more, become more,

you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.” - Ayn Rand

“Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.” - Bertrand Russell

“A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are. 

If you can laugh at yourself, you are going to be fine. If you allow others to laugh with you, you will be great.” - Martin Niemöller

“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”

- Mark Twain

“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert A. Heinlein

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.

“To be is to do” - Socrates

“If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy," you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms.” - DaShanne Stokes

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw

“If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing. But if you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.” - Ayn Rand

“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” - Ronald Reagan

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." - M. K. Gandhi

"The training is nothing! The will is everything! The will to act." - Henri Ducard to Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins

“Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.” - Mike Tyson

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. ” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.” - M.K. Gandhi

"It is better to travel well than to arrive." - Buddha

“The sun never set on the British empire, an Indian nationalist later sardonically commented, because even God couldn’t trust the Englishman in the dark” - Shashi Tharoor

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” - Frederick Douglass

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."

"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."

"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.” - Jane Austen

“understanding a question is half an answer” - Socrates

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”

- Mark Twain

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - M. K. Gandhi

“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” - Ayn Rand

“When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. ” - Hannah Arendt

"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken

"Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be." - George Carlin 

“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” - George Orwell

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide." - M.K. Gandhi

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Characterize people by their actions and you will never be fooled by their words." - Unknown

“But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.” - Robert Jordan

“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.” - Ayn Rand

“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”

- Mark Twain

“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;

For I am like the Moon,

you will see me with new face everyday.” – Rumi

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes." - Robert Frost

“Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.” - Hayao Miyazaki

“Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.” - George Bernard Shaw

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

“The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.” - Michel Foucault

“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.” - Ayn Rand

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain

“What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?” - Ruta Sepetys

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform or pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

"To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If non violence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?" - M.K. Gandhi

“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.”

- Mark Twain

“We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence” - Bertrand Russell

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” - Ayn Rand

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx

"Knowledge is power." - Francis Bacon

“I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.” - Hayao Miyazaki

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy." - M.K. Gandhi

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” - George Orwell

“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”

- Mark Twain

“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.” - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.” - Charlie Munger

“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.” - Buddha

“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. " - Ayn Rand

“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.” - Albert Einstein

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” - George Orwell

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." - Terry Pratchett

“It is easier to stay out than to get out.” - Mark Twain

"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business." - George Bernard Shaw

"That's why they call it the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin

“Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.” - John Lennon

“The path is the goal.” - M.K. Gandhi

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” - James Bovard

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool." - Albert Camus

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Bill Watterson

“No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.” - Ayn Rand

“Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.” - Niccolò Machiavelli

“No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else” - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.” - Frank Herbert

“Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.” - M.K. Gandhi

“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless, we have a tyranny without a tyrant.” - Hannah Arendt

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.” - George Orwell

“Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.”

- Mark Twain

"Atheism is a non-prophet organization." - George Carlin

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” - J. Krishnamurti

“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.” - Hannah Arendt

“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched.” - Ayn Rand

“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.” - Isaac Newton

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” - Frank Herbert

“[...] it would be false to say that because we're on the side of justice, we can go ahead and destroy our opponents and the world will be at peace. [...] Now, I know that there are such things as good and evil in the world, and that people do good things. But people who do good things are not necessarily good people, they just happen to be people who have done good things. The next instant they might wind up doing something bad, and if we don't take that into account in our view of humans, we'll constantly make mistakes when making political decisions or decisions about ourselves.” - Hayao Miyazaki

“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.” - Walt Whitman

“I'm a misunderstood genius."

"What's misunderstood?"

"Nobody thinks I'm a genius.” - Bill Watterson

“Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.” - Tobias Wolff

“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.” - Woody Allen

“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.”

- Mark Twain

“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.” - Voltaire

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - M.K. Gandhi

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” - Albert Einstein

“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.” - Ayn Rand

“Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history." - Hannah Arendt

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for mankind. ” - Marie Curie

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. 

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. 

Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? 

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” - Epicurus

“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.” - Hannah Arendt

“Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained.” - Frank Herbert

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” - George Orwell

“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.” - Richard P. Feynman

“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.” - Frank Herbert

“A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole” - M.K. Gandhi

“No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.” - Frank Herbert

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.” - Ayn Rand

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ” - Betty Friedan

“Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.” - Mark Twain

“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.” - Frank Herbert

“People who design machines and airplanes {or buildings}, no matter how much they believe that what they do is good, the winds of time eventually turn them into tools of industrial civilization. They’re cursed dreams. Animation, too. Beautiful yet cursed dreams.” - Hayao Miyazaki

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” - Voltaire

“To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.” - Hubert H. Humphrey

“To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.” - Frank Herbert

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” - Margaret Mead

“The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself... Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And

outlive the bastards.“ - Lois McMaster Bujold

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.” - Ayn Rand

“I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.” - Frank Herbert

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.” - Carl Sagan

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.” - George Carlin

"E Saala hindustan mein jabtak cinema hai, log chutiya bante rehenge…" - Ramadhir Singh in Gangs of Wasseypur

“Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.” - Frank Herbert

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” - Bertrand Russell

“Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth." - Svetlana Aleksievich

“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.” - Frank Herbert

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” - Buddha

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” - Christopher Hitchens

“Tell me with whom you consort and I will tell you who you are; if I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” - George Carlin

“Humans are almost always lonely.” - Frank Herbert

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.” - Stephen Colbert

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” - Richard Dawkins

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” - Isaac Newton

“Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.” - Frank Herbert

“Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.” - Franz Kafka

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” - George Orwell

“The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.” - Hannah Arendt

“To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.” - Ayn Rand

“It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.” - Frank Herbert

“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.” - Chuck Palahniuk

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” - Frank Herbert

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.” - Jawaharlal Nehru

“Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.” - Romain Rolland

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” - Bertrand Russell

“The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.” - Frank Herbert

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” - George Carlin

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.” - Frank Herbert

“Real education doesn't make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative...is to live your life based on injustice and lies.” - Laurie Forest

“Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful." - Paul Tillich

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell

“The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.” - Frank Herbert

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time” - Hannah Arendt

“I'm completely in favor of the 

separation of Church and State. 

... These two institutions screw us up enough 

on their own, so both of them together is 

certain death.” - George Carlin

“Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.” - Frank Herbert

“How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It's a universal law - intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.” - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here." - Arthur C. Clarke

“Face your fears or they will climb over your back.” - Frank Herbert

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.” - Charlotte Brontë

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.” - Chuck Palahniuk

“The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.” - Frank Herbert

“Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.” - J. Krishnamurti

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - Richard P. Feynman

“It is not enough to be electors only.

It is necessary to be law-makers;

otherwise those who can be law-makers will be the masters of those who can only be electors.” - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.” - Hannah Arendt

“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.” - George R.R. Martin

“Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.” - Frank Herbert

“When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.” - J. Krishnamurti

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” - Oscar Wilde

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” - Jane Austen

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost

“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.” - Socrates

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.” - Frank Herbert

“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” - Chuck Palahniuk

“Somehow I feel that an ordinary person–the man in the street if you like–is a more challenging subject for exploration than people in the heroic mold. It is the half shades, the hardly audible notes that I want to capture and explore. […] My films are about human beings, human relationships, and social problems. I think it is possible for everyone to relate to these issues. On a certain level, foreign audiences can appreciate Indian works, but many details are missed. For example, when they see a woman with a red spot on her forehead, they don’t know that this is a sign showing that she is married, or that a woman dressed in a white sari is a widow. Indian audiences understand this at once; it is self-evident for them. So, on certain level, the cultural gap is too wide. But on a psychological level, on the level of social relations, it is possible to relate. I think I have been able to cross the barrier between cultures. My films are made for an Indian audience, but I think they have bridged the gap.” - Satyajit Ray

“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.” - Marcus Aurelius

“Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.” - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

“The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.” - Frank Herbert

"We’re a people without a planet. We depend on the goodwill of our hosts. We just have to keep showing them who we are. We just keep contributing, show them our hearts. They will see us." - Talos to G'iah

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.” - Abraham Lincoln

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” - E.B. White

“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure." - George Carlin

“The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorize, to salivate when the bell rings.” - Joost A.M. Meerloo

“Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?” - Frank Herbert

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” - Isaac Newton

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” - Abraham Lincoln

“To find yourself, think for yourself.” - Socrates

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.” - Carl Gustav Jung

“Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.” - Frank Herbert

“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic.” - B.R. Ambedkar

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” - Joseph Stalin

“Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!” - Anais Nin

“Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.” - J. Krishnamurti

“Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.” - Frank Herbert

“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.” - Chuck Palahniuk

"Abusive men don't change overnight...especially after a lifetime of being a dick."  - Jonathan McIntosh, Pop Culture Detective

“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. 

The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. 

The world is rudderless.” - Alan Moore

“If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.” - Bertrand Russell

“The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.” - Frank Herbert

“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” - Socrates

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen." - Virginia Woolf

“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.” - Warren Wiersbe

“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.” - Richard P. Feynman

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.” - M. K. Gandhi

“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.” - Bhim Rao Ambedkar

“If you put away those who report accurately, you’ll keep only those who know what you want to hear. I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.” - Frank Herbert

"I will tell you, and there's now decent science on this, That one way to not change that person's mind is to yell at them and tell them that they're wrong. In fact, new studies are suggesting that trying to prove somebody wrong, especially in an internet setting, actually has the opposite effect, forcing us to refortify our towers. The more we yell at each other, the more we polarize, and the less we talk to each other, the less people's minds change. So if you're someone who has those types of arguments or leaves those types of comments on the internet, just know that the only person you're serving is you. You're not serving anyone else. You are serving that feeling that you get when you leave that comment that confirms your identity.

You do you, but you're not changing anyone's mind. " - Johnny Harris

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” - Frank Herbert

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” - Bette Davis

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” - Carl Sagan

“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.” - W. Somerset Maugham

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.” - Hannah Arendt

“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.” - J. Krishnamurti

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices, just recognize them.” - Edward R. Murrow

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.” - Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“Did you ever read my words, or did you merely finger through them for quotations which you thought might valuably support an already conceived idea concerning some old and distorted connection between us?” - Audre Lorde