Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.
To see the farm is to leave it.
(To the haters)You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, your're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.
You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.
We raise predators by treating children as prey.
Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.
I think, for myself, life lied to me.
The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.
If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own business and turns to God in prayer only when misfortunes come upon him which are beyond his power, and then he begins to hope in God, such a hope is vain and false. A true hope seeks only the Kingdom of God. . . the heart can have no peace until it obtains such a hope. This hope pacifies the heart and produces joy within it.
To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.