I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have passed over evolution, people have scattered across the face of this earth, been isolated from each other, developed independently, had different intermixtures between races, peoples, climates, soils... I didn't start off with that knowledge. But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.