Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

Let your wisdom guide youOn your own personal journey By listening to your heartYour soul will be alight And let you beAll that you are intended to be

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

The constant talking didn't bother her, for cats use their voices to say 'here I am, where are you?' and this seemed to be the primary intention of most human conversation.

The basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude.

The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues.

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.

If the hill has its own name, then it's probably a pretty tough hill.

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom