"I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce."

“Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.”

“The future is created at the intersection of business, technology, design, and culture. *In the Bubble* is an insightful and delightful explanation of this nexus and of how each force affects the others. Designers often miss a great deal in their educations about the real people who will use and inhabit their work. Thackara astutely illuminates a lot of what designers don't know they're missing.”

“I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!”

“I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love and be loved. She can be married, have children, be a mother. Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.”

Source : "'I made the ring from a bullet and the pin of a hand grenade'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2001.

“Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back.”

“Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.230, Broadview Press

“Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it.”

“My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.”

Source : Gary Stanley Becker, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (1996). “The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture”, p.9, Hoover Press