Keep your minds open, but not so open that your brains fall out. – Walter Kotschnig, c.1940
To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma. – Praxedis Guerrero, Regeneración, 1911 February 18th
Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions! – W.J. Reichmann
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. – Wilson Mizner
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. – Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955
When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong. – Ani Difranco
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. – George Bernard Shaw
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit. – Jewel Kilcher, Pieces of You
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. – Clarence Darrow
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature. – George Bernard Shaw
Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution. – Raymond E. Feist
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, The Dawn, 1881
My theory is that the hardest work anyone does in life is to appear normal. – From the movie Ed TV
Only dead fish swim with the stream. – Malcolm Muggeridge
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. – Chinese Proverb
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause. – Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. – Anatole France
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. – Latin Proverb
