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Whether [a] feeling accords with justice and sound judgment, is not the sole question, if indeed, it is any part of it. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, can not be safely disregarded.

[A]narchy is about taking complete responsibility for yourself. And I would extend that into the spiritual area, with the differences between religion and magic.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

“ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge”

"In the summer, winter is a myth -- a rumor, a legend, not to be believed."

Everywhere I go I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

"Lisa: Dad, we did something horrible!
Homer: Did you wreck the car?
Bart: No.
Homer: Did you raise the dead?
Lisa: Yes.
Homer: But the cars okay?
Bart & Lisa: Uh-huh.
Homer: All right then."

"Danger lies not in what we don't know but in what we think we know that just ain't so."

"The strong and clever will twist to their advantage any laws that are made; the law is a spider's web that catches the little flies and lets large creatures break through and escape."

"Our liberties are safe until the memories and experiences of the past are blotted out and the Mayflower with its band of pilgrims forgotten; until our public school system has fallen into decay and the Nation into ignorance; until legislators have resigned their functions to ecclesiastical powers and their prerogatives to priests."

"Tom and Daisy were careless people."

"All of the Talmud can be summarized thus: Do as you would have done."

"We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia."

"Leonard Nimoy: Good evening, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies, so in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is 'no.'"

"The revolution will not be televised."

We're not going to change human nature any time soon. It isn't that we aren't rational -- we are rational -- but reason has limits.

"I work at the circus, and I sleep with the clown
And when I took off my dress, the sky fell down
But if the sky falls down, then we play on the ground
'Cuz I'm pretty and high, and only partly a lie."

"I've not seriously doubted since that afternoon that any lie will receive almost instant corroboration, and almost instant collaboration, if the maintenance of it results in the public enjoyment of someone else's pain, someone else's humiliation."

"I fear to watch, yet I cannot turn away."

"To get to Eden, just follow the snake."

"we make our own gravity, to give weight to things
but then they fall and they break, and gravity sings"

"Down these mean streets, a man must go who is not himself mean."

"Life itself is the proper binge."

"Never cook with a wine you won't drink."

"People who don't see the Emperor's clothes usually get accused of lacking vision."

"Reality is that which, when we stop believing in it, does not go away."

"The blues isn't about feeling better. The blues is about making other people feel worse, and making a few bucks while youre at it."

"We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides."

In 1960, each car entering a central city had 1.7 people in it. By 1970, this had dropped to less than 1.2. If present trends continue, by 1980 more than one out of every 10 cars entering a city center will have no driver!

"I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower."