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So long as they don’t get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me. Albert Einstein

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens… Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere. Leo Tolstoy

The government I live under has been my enemy all my active life. When it has not been engaged in silencing me it has been engaged in robbing me. So far as I can recall I have never had any contact with it that was not an outrage on my dignity and an attack on my security. H. L. Mencken

Education is a wonderful thing, provided you always remember that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught. Oscar Wilde

Reading after a certain time diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein

Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking. They want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation. George Carlin

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

As you go down the path of life, ask: ‘What’s true?’, not: ‘Who else believes it?’ I’m not in it for the likes. Bill Maher

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower. Alexander den Heijer

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. Albert Einstein