"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." Leonardo da Vinci
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
"We have to realize that the real problem is that the American people have been too submissive."
Ron Paul
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust
"The truth doesn't change according to our ability to stomach it."
Flannery O'Connor
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
Voltaire
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
-- Alan Perlis
We literally believe we are in the right to ignore a message of truth if the messenger is somehow distasteful to us. I would argue this to be a symptom of total madness.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell
"Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave."
-- Leo Tolstoy, What shall We Do Then? (1886)
It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David Thoreau
"Belief in myth allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought"
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."
Thomas Huxley.
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”
― Henry Ford.
"While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State" -
Lenin
