It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.