It is not a band. It is an idea.
Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.
A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.
To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?
Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.
Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
Growth is the only evidence of life.