Hugh MacLeod:

Ergo, the haters are a sign that you're doing something right.  So you probably want to get other people to hate you eventually -- that is, the right kind of people.  In some ways, they might actually end up helping you define your mission to others, more than the people who actually love you.

Evil Plans, p. 117

Larry King:

I don't amass companies or properties.  But in a way, I guess you could say I do acquire.  I acquire people.  The joy in my life is meeting somebody interesting every day.

Truth Be Told, p. 35

Abraham Lincoln:

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Yashar Ali:

It's a whole lot easier to emotionally manipulate someone who has been conditioned by our society to accept it.  We continue to burden women because they don't refuse our burdens as easily.  It's the ultimate cowardice.

"A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not 'Crazy'"

Frank Schaeffer:

As modernity has threatened the belief system of conservative Christians, their resentment has grown into alienation.  Rather than rethink their beliefs, many Christian leaders seem hell-bent on forcing the world to conform to their fears.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 66-67

Steve Jobs:

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Mahatma Gandhi:

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Larry King:

I've always been more fascinated by the singer than the song.  So my curiosity lies in the billionaire -- not the billions.

Truth Be Told, p. 31

Sarah Schulman:

Telling victims that their abuser is wrong does not help anything.  You have to tell the abuser herself.

Ties That Bind, p. 170

Yashar Ali:

Even vocal, confident, assertive women are vulnerable to gaslighting.  Why?  Because women bare the brunt of our neurosis.  It is much easier for us to place our emotional burdens on the shoulders of our wives, our female friends, our girlfriends, our female employees, our female colleagues, than for us to impose them on the shoulders of men.

"A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not 'Crazy'"

Frank Schaeffer:

Many religious fundamentalists feel under siege by the secular world and harbor a deeply paranoid sense of victimhood.  I think of those who turn their sense of victimhood into material and political success and their claims of persecution into strategies of achieving power as Jesus Victims.  I don't mean they are victims of Jesus; rather, they claim to be victims for the sake of Jesus, accruing power through the rhetoric of sacrifice and persecution and grasping at conspiracy theories about how the nefarious "World" and all "Those Liberals" are out to do them in.

Sex, Mom, and God, p. 33