Humans are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it hates those that speak it - George Orwell

Only disciplined people are free, undisciplined people are slaves to their moods.

If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize. - Voltaire

It is human nature to wish to see bad things happen to those you consider an enemy.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. - Marcus Aurelius

You cannot reason a person out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

The opposite of addiction is not sobriety - it is connection.

A lie has great speed, but thruth has endurance.

Keine Ziele zu haben ist keine Freiheit. Das ist die Freiheit von den Winden des Schicksals hin und her gebeutelt zu werden und sich ständig als Opfer zu fühlen. - Vera birkenbihl