. . . the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
I went to sleepaway camp seven years in a row. I was such a pro.
Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.
Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination towards evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray.
The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.