“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.” --Friedrich Nietzsche
"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking." -- John Maynard Keynes
"One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them." -- Uta Hagen
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and thus clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” --Henry L. Mencken (1880-1956)
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities, has the power to make you commit injustices," --Voltaire
“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?” --Proverbs 6:9
"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself." -- Archibald MacLeish
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open."--Thomas Dewar
"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right." -- Confucius
"Respect begins when we begin to acknowledge and accept perceptions besides our own." -- Gary A. Johnson
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and the government when it deserves it." --Mark Twain
"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." -- Jim Rohn
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." -- Winston Churchill
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on." -- Winston Churchill
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -- Albert Einstein
"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking" --Albert Einstein
"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; If you're planning for a decade, plant tress; If you're planning for a lifetime, educate people" --Chinese proverb
"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong." -- Prime Minister Diefenbaker, March 11, 1958
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." --Albert Einstein
"Every government is run by liars, and nothing they say should be believed." -- I.F. Stone
“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.” --Caesar
