A #genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

#AleksandrSolzhenitsyn

#Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle. Some things are within your control, and some things are not

#Epictetus

#Relativism is a betrayal of reason and of humanity

#KarlPopper

#Political movements, personal movements, all begin with people imagining another way of existing

#NeilGaiman

They wanted facts. #Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything

#JosephConrad

Thus #climbing into the limelight is bound to be done at the expense of the others who won't be climbing

#JosephBrodsky

One of the reasons that we value #individuals is not because they're all the same, but because they're all different

#MargaretThatcher

#Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood

#MahatmaGandhi

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen

#Aeschylus

The #Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself

#eecummings

It's flabbergasting that anyone over the age of five believes that giving Jones the power to spend Smith's money will result in Smith's money being spent more wisely than if Smith spends that money

#DonBoudreaux

Yet behind the majority, often defectively concealed, there is always a sinister #minority, eager only for its own advantage and willing to adopt any device, however outrageous, to get what it wants

#HLMencken

In America you can say anything you want, as long as it doesn't have any effect

#PaulGoodman

The #happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts

#MarcusAurelius

Never attribute to #malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

#RobertJHanlon

Among the virtues, #justice is one of the most shaped by convention. For that reason it is among the most changeable

#JohnGray

#Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true

#UlyssesSGrant

I believe in #evidence. I believe in observation, measurement & reasoning, confirmed by independent observers

#IsaacAsimov

To get others to come to our way of thinking, we must go over to theirs. It's necessary to follow in order to lead

#WilliamHazlitt

#Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste

#HLMencken