"I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor."

“Believe me, it's always a lot harder on the guy getting fired.”

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”

“All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

“Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.”

“If a body can no longer be accentuated, it should be abstracted.”

“Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.”

“The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy.”

Source : Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.18, University of Illinois Press

“Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself.”