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.

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.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

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

If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.

They say the mad live in a world of dreams, or nightmares. I just need to find the way out.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for; it’s Lulu too.

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.

The lucky renew their energy through the activity in which they're engaged.

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?