"If your friend's friend's friend (whom you may not have even met) is obese, a smoker or a zealot of some kind then it is a lot more likely that you will be too."

“Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.”

“The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.”

“I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.”

“In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.”

Source : "Eisner/Miller". Book by Frank Miller and Will Eisner, 2005.

“I'm not real big on repentence ... I like revenge better.”

“When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.”

“Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.”

“Nothing falsifies history more than logic.”

Source : François Guizot (1848). “General History of Civilisation in Europe: From the Fall of the Roman Empire Till the French Revolution : Also a Treatise on Death Punishments”, p.98