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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.

We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom- war on terror and so on-falsifies freedom.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.