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

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. – Mary Wortley Montagu

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve. – Charles de Gaulle

Habit rules the unreflecting herd. – William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1822