Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

A fresh bottle of Jack waited on the end table, but for the first time in weeks I didn’t feel the need to pour a nightcap. The music was better.

If I can make a career for myself after Harry Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder.

To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

To be spiritual means to be an emperor within yourself. This is the only way to be.

Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

Saint John Paul II, pray for us and especially for our youth.

I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.