Even breathing is a contribution.
The hallmark of a free society is that I may totally disapprove of what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it until I die.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.
Perseverance is my biggest lesson. When I started to get involved in environmental protection some years ago, my people did not take it seriously and they never considered it important. But today, people look at what I do and they truly recognize those efforts, and eventually they join you as "environmental activists" too!
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.
Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard. ” - Al to Rachel