Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Johann von Goethe

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather.

George Bernard Shaw

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

Remy de Gourmont

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Peace Pilgrim

There's no religion but sex and music.

Sting

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Walter Lippmann

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Woodrow Wilson

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.

Lord Chesterfield

Our actions are guaranteed to affect others. Because we are not alone in this world, much of our learning about ourselves comes from our interaction with others. Our relationships are our teachers. We learn from each other.

Tae Yun Kim

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Socrates