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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

To disagree with three-fourths of the (British) public is one of the first requisites of sanity. Oscar Wilde

They who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Anonymous Greek Proverb

You need power only if you want to do something harmful, otherwise love is enough to get everything done. Charley Chaplin

The eyes of our citizens are not yet sufficiently open to the true cause of our distresses. They ascribe them to every thing but their true cause, the banking system; a system, which, if it could do good in any form, is yet so certain of leading to abuse, as to be utterly incompatible with the public safety and prosperity. Thomas Jefferson (June 22^nd, 1819)

The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for its handle was made of one of them, and they thought it was one of them. Unknown

Private property […] has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is. Oscar Wilde

There are two types of people in the world: People who think the government is looking out for their best interest and people who think. Nathan Fraser

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? Frederic Bastiat