"With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart."

“When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.”

Source : "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

“Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.”

“Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.”

“Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.”

Source : Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.438, Penguin

“Whores, instead of claiming what's rightfully yours. Pierced a hole in my heart from all the pain you caused, with no direction you left your first born lost.”

“Knowledge is of more value than gold”

“Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.”

“There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income. I think the same thing is true of idea incomes. You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.”