Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Freedom is the dream you dreamWhile putting thought in chains again --

That which is built upon the land goes with the land.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

I guess there's just a meanness in this world

Obedience out of love is joy.

Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage.

I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.