Ignorance doesn’t make a person stupid, aversion to learning and rampant self-absorption do.
Ask us for water, we won’t let you go unfed, but do not mistake our gentleness as fear. If you so much as lay a finger on our home, we’ll defend it with our blood, sweat ’n tears.
Wounds of love are a lover’s ornament.
At the moment, don’t buy my books, help the people of Ukraine instead.
Enough with this condescending outlook of life from a high and mighty, intellectual pedestal! Come down, come down to earth, come down to the street, come down to the soil, for that’s where life is.
When you diminish others to elevate yourself, you only diminish yourself further.
Strength used for oppression is violence, strength used for defending the weak is justice.
In a truly civilized society there wouldn’t be any billionaire, nor will there be any homeless, for all the revenue generated through taxing the rich would be distributed among the people through welfare initiatives.
An oppressor mob is far more dangerous than an oppressor tyrant.
Justice doesn’t mean absence of injustice, it means the presence of the determination to stand up to injustice.
Yesterday I was seeking happiness for myself and I was miserable, today I seek it for others and I am the happiest person on earth.
The human brain has not evolved to perceive reality, it has evolved to create an illusion of reality. That’s why an exciting lie gains more attention than a boring truth.
What are you good for, if your life doesn’t make a single trace of contribution in the alleviation of people’s misery!
Those who do not appreciate the soldiers and instead pompously talk about peace, should try to live a single day without the soldiers.
How come we can invent better ways to kill each other, but not one to preserve peace!
The purpose of law is to punish inhumanity, whereas the purpose of armed forces is to prevent inhumanity.
One who feels responsible for their community, needs no ancestor to define their identity.
Imperfection facilitates improvement, perfection facilitates stagnation.
Those who don’t do, bark. Those who are humans, do.
I haven’t come for science, I have come for love.