Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Liberation is not deliverance.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.