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- There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
- Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
- The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now.
- S. G. Tallentyre, referring to Voltaire. Often attributed to Voltaire.
- Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), letter to M. le Riche, February 6, 1770
- The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Breakfast of Champions
- I want to grow. I want to be better. You grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.
- Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection 1971-1996
- If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Encyclopaedia Britannica
- I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.
- Kurt Cobain (1967 - 1994)
- For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game. - Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)
- Things aren't magically better if that's what you're hoping for. It's not that simple.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 02-11-05
- That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
- Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883), Women's Convention, Akron Ohio, 1851
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