“Consciousness is a born hermit.”

“All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible”

“The man who is not permitted to own is owned.”

“When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.” 

“Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.” 

“punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group.” 

“I’m not sure we can understand another country if we don’t understand our own.” 

“When someone asks me if I believe in God and I say no—I believe in people—I” 

“That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.”

“why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.”

“The worship of power is an old religion.”

“In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.” 

“we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.” 

“You didn’t leave your party. Your party left you. Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.” 

“I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.” 

“As Dr. King once said, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” 

“It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.” 

“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”

“To know your future you must know your past”

“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”

“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”

“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence