"Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point."

“We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.”

“We dont need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.”

“The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.”

“Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.”

“It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.”

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”

Source : Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.132, Dial Press

“To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.”

“Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.”

Source : "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.