«Illusions lead to disillusionment when reality has its day, as it always does, sooner or later.»

– Jason Alexander

«In school, you learn the lessons, then you take the test. In life, you take the test, then you learn the lessons.»

– Diane Linsley 

«Despite the fact that we are physically here, we are freer than everyone sitting across from us. We can say anything we want!»

– Nadeschda Andrejewna Tolokonnikowa, member of Pussy Riot

Extract out of the full quote by Nadia:

“By and large, the three members of Pussy Riot are not the ones on trial here. If we were, this event would hardly be so significant. This is a trial of the entire political system of the Russian Federation... Despite the fact that we are physically here, we are freer than everyone sitting across from us on the side of the prosecution. We can say anything we want and we say everything we want... So, open all the doors, tear off your epaulets; Come, taste freedom with us.”

Read the original article in Forbes.

«Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated».

– Alice Herz (remark made in summer 2012, at that time she was 108 years old)

«I believe in love. lust. sex. romance. I don’t want everything to add up to the perfect equation…I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion, heat and madness. I want it all.»

– Tori Pflibsen

«[Wikileaks] could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act.»

– Time Magazine

«Ahab to Ismael: «Aaaall the space, it's … all emptiness, it's all whiteness… Like the whale. Oooahahaa, he's in your blood now! He has touched your heart.»

– Ahab (Main Character of the film Moby Dick, TV Series)

«Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.»

– Albert Einstein

«Everything important will find its ways to you many, many times: don't worry if you miss it.»

– Stowe Boyd

«One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors»

– Plato

«[To] All my relatives, remember – only the rocks stay on the earth forever.»  

– White Antelope

«Nobody is free until Leonard Peltier is free – Niemand ist frei, solange Leonard Peltier nicht frei ist!»

– unknown (found as a graffiti on a wall?)

«To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children-as well as ourselves-to love the diversity of humanity....We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.»

– Leonard Peltier

«That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without argument.» 

– Julian Assange

«Those who are willing to trade Freedom for security deserve neither.»

– Benjamin Franklin

«Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.»

– V (Character from movie V like Vendeatta)

«[Innovation] comes from saying no to 1’000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.»

– Steve Jobs

About Haiku: «A complete immersion in the present without concern or attachment toward the past or future, but also with a sense that everything is fleeting, that this moment will never come again, and thus that the present has unqualified value.» 

– David Barnhill in «Moments, Seasons and Mysticism: The Complexity of Time in Japanese Haiku»

«I am a spiritual being, the same as you, primarily. Then I'm a human being and this part of the human being is the body, which has a condition.»

– Leon Botha (painter, DJ, artist)

«I can't live. With or without you…»

– U2, irische Popband