The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Control healthcare and you control the people

Never let a crisis go to waste

History is a relay of revolutions.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

Be careful of broken people. Their sharp edges may cut you.

I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

Captures the reader with true magic.

The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.

...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

I want people to appreciate talent and ability.

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.