No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

Death comes for us all in the end.

It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.