If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.