Augusten Burroughs Quotes

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

Truth purchaseth hatred.

Every time you blow the whistle, half the people are going to be mad at you.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.

If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

If you are to strike, then make it painful, because you'll get the same blame either way.

Truth purchases hatred. Veritas odium parit.

One cannot move so fast so as to invite a backlash.

The toe you step on today may be connected to the foot that kicks your ass tomorrow.

If you speak the truth - and I believe people should speak the truth about Islam - you pay a very heavy price.

An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We've seen that time and time again over history.

You can talk all you want but I'm definitely going to bark back.

In the world of 'Power,' no good deed goes unpunished. I don't really look at it as karma in the world of 'Power.' Whenever any character thinks they're on safe ground, they get the world pulled up from under them.

In politics, when you become serious, you become a threat to somebody. And they usually aren't too nice about it.

Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.

Hate begets hate and if karma and punishment is the only language you understand then the road ahead will be rocky.

If Gail Kim gets in my business, I'll make sure there is no more Gail Kim.

Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.

Rebellion never goes without consequences.