In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. (Bertrand Russell)
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.(Bertrand Russell)
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. (George S. Patton)
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire)
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. (Voltaire)
Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion. (Voltaire)
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. (Thomas Jefferson)
A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom. (Chris Hedges)
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured (and) commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. (Pierre Joseph Prouhon)
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it. (Mark Twain)