"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
"All generous thought is threatened by its own Stalinism."
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
"There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic. And in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same."
"All aesthetic decisions are moral, really."
"Never met a wise man. If so, it's a woman."
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
"`Doublethink' means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
"Whoso shall be a man must be a non-conformist."
"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast."
"Faith without works is dead."
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows."
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!"
"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."
"Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? `And here is my good big centipede!' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race."
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
"I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical...It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."
"I know you'll be the sun in somebody else's sky."
"Be formless like water so you may adopt all forms."
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."
"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love."
"When I was a young man, I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her - but, alas, she was waiting for the perfect man."
"When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."
"I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
in Whining poetry."
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
"Popularity is for dolls."
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
"You don't die of a broken heart. You only wish you did."
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
"I is an other."
"I think therefore I am."
"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
"Big brother is watching you."
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times."
"In a minute there is time [f]or decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
"Assent - and you are sane - ,
Demur - you're straightway dangerous - ,
And handled with a Chain - ."
"It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him."
"[W]hen a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
"Hell is other people."
"You don't have to be a house to be haunted."
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
"Free speech not only lives, it rocks."
"The Prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead."
"If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other."
"...none of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are."
"The clown of circus and pantomime, in his baggy costume, whitened face, grotesque red lips, and odd little tuft of hair, is probably a relic of the devil as he appeared in medieval miracle plays."
"Part of survival is not killing yourself."
"Preach the gospel whenever possible. When necessary, use words."
"Whichever I choose, it amounts to the same: absolutely nothing."
"When it comes down to it, most women are more turned on by a guy who will help her put up her bookshelves and play with her dog than one who will steal her money and screw her sister."
"Ah, that says 'I am filled with an overwhelming desire to die.' That's what I woke up saying today so I thought I'd write it on my arm so I wouldn't forget it."
"Some little girls play with Barbie, some with their brother's fire truck. Some run over Barbie with the fire truck, set her long, blonde tresses ablaze and hurl her from the roof, Ken's eyes agog."
"All men are mad in some way or the other..."
"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
"The only `intuitive' interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned."
"Software is like sex; it's better when it's free."
"Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual."
"But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing - of joy, of laughter, of tears. Honest love makes one's soul a reflection of the partner's moods."
"Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deepest-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen enemy, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength. Stealing our will, for what are we without empathy? What manner of joy might we find in our lives if we cannot understand the joys and pains of those around us, if we cannot share in the greater community?"
"And so I reject all but the most moderate use of such intoxicants, and while I'll not openly judge those who so indulge, I will pity them their empty souls."
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."