In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.
Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
Disparaging public opinion is ... a necessary prelude to ignoring it.
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
I like to wear what I feel good in, not what the latest trend is.
You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.
Dare to risk public criticism.
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
