Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.