There is no break in the wholeness of time.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.

He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it.

Did you miss me?’“A little bit, ” she said with a shrug.“You have tears running down your cheeks, ” he said with a grin. “I think you missed me more than a little.

My name is Zia Rashid.

In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus

As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth that we miss and love so much.

One thing you should know about me is I never play to lose, Always aim high and rarely obey the rules.

And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

We will never enjoy life unless we make a quality decision to do so.

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider [Barack Obama] who has sliced and diced the electorate, pitting American against American for political purposes.