You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.
Power is not happiness.
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.
The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon. . . but I want to stay alive.
And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?
A person like me. . . isn't even worth the tip of a toe. I can't even compare to half.
As chaste as unsunned snow.