Ariel Dorfman

"Money is frozen time, stolen from someone's labor."

"Faith is not belief without doubt; it is trust despite uncertainty."

"We become what we repeatedly imagine ourselves to be."

"History is written by the living about the dead they wish to understand."

"Literature is the democracy of the dead and the unborn."

"Wisdom is knowing that we must act despite incomplete knowledge."

"The smile of the oppressed should never be mistaken for consent."

"We inherit language; we must learn to use it against oppression."

"Every gesture of kindness is a small rebellion against cruelty."

"Success measured only in wealth is the poorest kind of success."

"Friendship is the courage to see and be truly seen."

"The happiness we ignore in others will eventually visit our own homes."

"Transformation requires both rage and tenderness."

"We are responsible not just for what we do, but for what we fail to do."

"The truth sets free only those willing to live differently."

"Power shared is power multiplied; power hoarded is power dying."

"We must become the future we wish to see."

"Silence in the face of injustice is complicity made comfortable."

"The most revolutionary act is to teach people to read their own reality."

"Love is the willingness to be changed by another."

"We survive our sorrows by transforming them into meaning."

"The present always contains the seeds of the future."

"To be an artist is to take a stance on what it means to be human."

"We are all exiles from something, pilgrims toward something else."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of justice."

"The natural world is our first text; we must learn to read it carefully."

"Songs are the prayers of those who have lost faith in prayer."

"To live authentically is to live dangerously."

"We are shaped by what we love more than by what we fear."

"The future belongs to those who can imagine it most vividly."