Everybody potentially can make the claim that we should all be treated fairly.
A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.
Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.
I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
If the wind is in your face, you swing too hard just to get the ball through it; if the wind is at your back, you swing too hard just to see how far you can get the ball to go.