It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.Gloria Steinem
Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.Noam Chomsky
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.Simone de Beauvoir
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.Simone de Beauvoir
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.J. K. Rowling
If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.J. K. Rowling
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.Simone de Beauvoir
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.Blaise Pascal
