What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore it knows it’s not fooling a soul. -Neil Gaiman

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life. -Terry Pratchett

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating on itself – a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred. -Frank Herbert

There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous. -Neil Gaiman

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. -Thomas Paine

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. -Isaac Asimov

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -Isaac Asimov

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. -Frank Herbert

What do you despise? By this are you truly known. -Frank Herbert

You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime. -Neil Gaiman