courage Quotes

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

I will come back to India - so deal with it.

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.