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“I’m always focussed on the actual work, and I think that’s a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.”
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“My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek.”
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“When I look at Bill, I know right away how he thinks. I can feel if he's having problems, even if I'm not with him.”
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“The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.”
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“The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.”
Source : "Torture and Resistance in Iran". Book by Ashraf Dehghani, 1971.
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“An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.”
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“No action can be performed successfully without a clear result in view.”
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“While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
Source : "A Man Without a Country". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (pp. 102-103), September 15, 2005.
