The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

There are some loony people in this world!

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

What we live by we die by.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

A useless life is an early death.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

There’s an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?