A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. – Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 1932 July 30th

We need — and should encourage and honour — not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. – Walter Moberly, The Crisis in the University