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The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. Gustave Le Bon

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed. Mark Twain

The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation — that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class — that is, for a criminal purpose. Albert J. Nock

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Lysander Spooner

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress. Murray Rothbard

The ‘net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. John Gilmore (EFF founder)

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated something is wrong. Orson Welles

I think the person who takes a job in order to live — that is to say, for the money — has turned himself into a slave. Joseph Campbell

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglas

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are. H.L. Mencken

Without leaving your home, you can understand the whole world. Without looking out the window, you can see the way of heaven. The further away you go, the less you understand yourself. That is why the wise man understands himself without traveling. He sees without looking. He accomplishes everything without doing anything. Lao Tse

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. George Orwell, 1984

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. Socrates

When an honest man discovers he is mistaken, he will either cease being mistaken, or cease being honest. Anonymous

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man you take it. Malcolm X

In many spiritual traditions one does not and can not progress to the next level of attainment without first putting another in one’s own place; hence the requirement in these traditions that one teach others and help them evolve. Fred Cameron

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall. Adolf Hitler

When you are presented with a choice between two evils, do not choose the lesser. Choose the exit. Robert Higgs

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy — their own population. Noam Chomsky