We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent. – Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930

Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. – Charles Dudley Warner

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com