The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.
A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free.
We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.
... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.
In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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