The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.

The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.

In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.