• "When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." -Stephen F. Roberts
• "Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, "you owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky." -Hafiz
• "My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night..."Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." -Paul Coelho, The Alchemist
• "I want the night spent with you to remain alive for an entire life." -Turkish song
• "Never let the hand you hold, hold you down." -Author Unknown
• "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." —Ambrose Bierce
• "I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them." -Diane Arbus
• "I run, love has dyed me with my blood, my head is no longer with me, nor away from me, come and see what love has made of me, my love has seen me, has ripped out my heart, made it sick, intends to kill it. Sometimes I am like a wind, sometimes like dusty roads, sometimes I hit like water on water, come and see me, what love has made of me." -Turkish song
• "We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave." -Abbie Hoffman
• "Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions." -Abbie Hoffman
• "Nothing is worse than active ignorance." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• "In the world, when death approaches, four angels come. Four angels together pull the soul out by its finger tips, and the breath of the dying man flows like water out of the jug of a water-vendor onto the earth." -Emine Sevgi Oezdamar, Mother Tongue
• Glamour Magazine's interview with Ashley Olsen:

-Q: "Are there any fashion regrets in your closets?" -A: "When I was seven or eight, I only wore shoes that were two sizes too big. I don't know why I would lie about my shoe size; maybe I wanted to be older. I fell down a lot."

• "Individual conscience and the pursuit of self-interest should not be constrained by any collective body or public authority." -Andrew Heywood
• "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." -Steven Weinberg
• "Wine-giver, bring me wine, take my understanding away with the wine, it is not worth anything in this world, I want to be a wineglass moving between your hands, my shadow should fall only on your face. Child, you were born of a Huri, my understanding has flown from its place, your eyelashes are arrows that drank my blood, your smooth forehead is a cursed sea, can power remain steady if one looks into your black eyes, your mouth, when it says something, brings the dead back to life?" -Emine Sevgi Oezdamar, Mother Tongue
• "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." -Karl Marx
• "Anarchism...stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government ...for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations." -Emma Goldman
• "I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown in my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to behave as a nun and that the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things." -Emma Goldman
• "I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood." -Emma Goldman
• "[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days." -Voltairine de Cleyre
• "Ibni Abdullah sits me down on a flower-patterend carpet, he takes my nipples in his hands, I lay my hands in the sun on his neck. Oh, you with fast wings! Flying very high, sit down before my door on the ground where you can rest! You are my eye pupils, my tears shall be your drinking water." -Emine Sevgi Oezdamar, Mother Tongue
• "to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best - night and day - to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight - and never stop fighting." -e.e. cummings