People never #learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves

@PauloCoelho

One's #life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion

#SimoneDeBeauvoir

The 'nothing to hide argument' comes up again and again and it's obviously ridiculous. #Privacy is not about something to hide. Privacy is about human dignity

#BruceSchneier

And further still at an unearthly height,

One luminary #clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

I have been one acquainted with the night

#RobertFrost

Do tighter gun control laws reduce the murder rate? That is not an esoteric question, nor one for which no empirical evidence is available. But have you ever heard any gun control advocate cite any such data?

#ThomasSowell

Anxious for some #permanency, I guess I needed to be reminded how temporal permanency is

#PattiSmith

The cost of #liberty is less than the price of repression

#WEBDuBois

Some things #torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought; and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all. We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow

#Seneca

I would say, let our children #grow tall and some taller than others if they have the ability in them to do so

#MargaretThatcher

One of the primary dangers of #majority rule is that it confers an aura of legitimacy and respectability on acts that would otherwise be deemed tyrannical. Liberty and democracy are not synonymous and could actually be opposites

#WalterEWilliams

Do you blame the hammer for a broken nail?

Circumstances don't rise to meet our #expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get. Open your eyes: See things for what they really are, thereby sparing yourself the pain of false attachments & avoidable devastation

#Epictetus

#Skepticism is science

#War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes

#JamesMadison

The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil

#MarcusAurelius

#Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own

#RobertAHeinlein

The universe will always be much richer than our ability to #understand it

#CarlSagan

The future of human #liberty means the future of civilization

#HenryHazlitt

And what if excess of #love

Bewildered them till they died?

#WilliamButlerYeats

#Causality can be very complex. It is very difficult to isolate a single cause when there are plenty around

@NNTaleb