“The demonic person thinks: ‘So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes. So much is mine now, and it will increase in the future, more and more. He is my enemy, and I have killed him, and my other enemies will also be killed. I am the lord of everything. I am the enjoyer. I am perfect, powerful, and happy. I am the richest man, surrounded by aristocratic relatives. There is none so powerful and happy as I am. I shall perform sacrifices, I shall give some charity, and thus shall rejoice.’ In this way, such persons are deluded by ignorance. Thus perplexed by various anxieties and bound by a network of illusions, they become too strongly attached to sense enjoyment and fall down into hell. – Bhagavad Gita

“Today for show and tell I‘ve brought a tiny marvel of nature: a single snowflake. I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal.. ..turns into an ordinary boring molecule of water just like every other one when you bring it in the classroom. And now. While the analogy sinks in. I’ll be leaving you drips and going outside.” - Calvin and Hobbes

"Doubt is not a pleasent condition, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." - Voltaire

"History is a pack of lies we play on the dead." - Voltaire

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." - Aristotle

"Law is mind without reason." - Aristotle

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not to always remain unaltered." - Aristotle

"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it." - Henry David Thoreau

"In wildness is the preservation of the world." - Henry David Thoreau

"Under a government which imprisions any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison." - Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" - Henry David Thoreau

"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." - Thomas Jefferson

"He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know." - Lao-tzu

"He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao-tzu

"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed." - Lao-tzu

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them." - Karl Marx

"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of the soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx

"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." - Ernest Hemingway