“That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.”

"Our planet is going to hit disaster if we don’t turn this ship around and so it’s basically like, there’s a scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult."

“Any excuse will serve a tyrant”

“Boasters brag most when they cannot be detected.”

“Vices are their own punishment”

“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”

“Certainly a visitor from Mars descending upon a colony of birth-injured cripples, dwarfs and hunchbacks...could not deduce what they should have been. But then let us not study cripples, but the closest thing we can get to whole, healthy men. In them, we find qualitative differences, a different system of motivation, emotion, value, thinking and perceiving. In a certain sense, only the saints are mankind. All the rest are cripples.”

“False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.”

“If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.”

It is in the nature of language that people can hear the same words but comprehend entirely different meanings.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

If you still have to ask, shame on you

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

How can I protect something so perfect without evil...

"Ting-a-ling mother fucker."

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

"Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage."

"Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have."

"Falsehood is never in words; it is in things."

"Anything that consoles is fake."

"Be ashamed of your hatred. Give up hatred and be quiet."