Marcus Aurelius

“Do every act in life as if it was your last”. –Marcus Aurelius

Ruhollah Khomeini

“We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world”. –Ruhollah Khomeini

John Keats

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced – Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it”. — John Keats

Matsuo Basho

“Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought”. –Matsuo Basho

Bobby Fischer

“I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want”. –Bobby Fischer

Niccolo Machiavelli

“It ought be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things”. –Niccolo Machiavelli

Aleister Crowley

“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous, and menacing. Its overshadowing formlessness obsesses the mind. The way to beat an enemy is to define him clearly, to analyze and measure him. Once an idea is intelligently grasped, it ceases to threaten the mind with the terrors of the unknown”. –Aleister Crowley

Isaac Asimov

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today”. –Isaac Asimov

Peace Pilgrim

“Anything you cannot relinquish, when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions”. –Peace Pilgrim

Eric Hoffer

“A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority”. –Eric Hoffer

Thomas More

“Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise”. –Thomas More

Miguel de Unamuno

“Suffering is the substance of life, and the root of personality; for it is only suffering that makes us persons”. –Miguel de Unamuno

Ivan Illich

“The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately, this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts”. –Ivan Illich

Lord Byron

“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know”. –Lord Byron

William S. Burroughs

“How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity”. –William S. Burroughs

Martin Luther King

“Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s Will, and He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land”. –Martin Luther King

Heinz Guderian

“There are no desperate situations, only desperate people”. –Heinz Guderian

Louis L’Amour

“A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for defeat”. –Louis L’Amour

Laozi

“Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. He who knows has no wide learning; he who has wide learning does not know”. –Laozi

John Calvin

“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels”. –John Calvin

Henry Miller

“What is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?” –Henry Miller

Chauncey Wright

“We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them”. –Chauncey Wright

Oscar Levant

“I envy people who drink; at least they know what to blame everything on”. –Oscar Levant

John Maynard Keynes

“Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead”. –John Maynard Keynes

Julius Cæsar

“Men willingly believe what they wish”. –Julius Cæsar

Frank Lloyd Wright

“I believe totally in a capitalist system; I only wish that someone would try it”. –Frank Lloyd Wright

Diane Arbus

“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind”. –Diane Arbus

Richard Wagner

“I hate this fast-growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories, and deprive them of all joy in their efforts. The plan will lead to cheap men, and cheap products”. –Richard Wagner

Thomas Jefferson

“A democracy is nothing more than mob-rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine”. –Thomas Jefferson

Dante Alighieri

“The darkest pits of hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis”. –Dante Alighieri

Albert Camus

“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is”. –Albert Camus

Edward Abbey

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”. –Edward Abbey

Samuel Butler

“God cannot alter the past, though historians can”. –Samuel Butler

Henry David Thoreau

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves”. –Henry David Thoreau

Juvenal

“Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence”. –Juvenal

Arrian

“Our enemies are Medes and Persians; men who, for centuries, have lived soft and luxurious lives. We, of Macedon, for generations past, have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves”. –Arrian

W.C. Fields

“I never vote for anybody; I always vote against”. –W.C. Fields

Bertrand Russell

“War does not determine who is right – only who is left”. –Bertrand Russell

Carl Sagan

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, but merely indifferent”. –Carl Sagan

Saul Alinsky

“The greatest enemy to individual freedom is the individual himself'” –Saul Alinsky

Thomas Aquinas

“By nature, all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments”. –Thomas Aquinas

Thor Heyerdahl

“In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds”. –Thor Heyerdahl

James Madison

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”. –James Madison

Florence Nightingale

“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower”. –Florence Nightingale

Friedrich Nietzsche

“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly”. –Friedrich Nietzsche

Martin Luther

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”. –Martin Luther

J.R.R. Tolkien

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend”. –J.R.R. Tolkien

George Carlin

“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist”. –George Carlin

Marquis de Sade

“Woman’s destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her”. –Marquis de Sade

Gene Roddenberry

“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful god, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes”. –Gene Roddenberry

Charles Bukowski

“It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well”. –Charles Bukowski

Tacitus

“To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace”. –Tacitus

Aldous Huxley

“A democracy which makes, or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy”. –Aldous Huxley

Edward Gibbon

“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery”. –Edward Gibbon

Thomas Paine

“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be true”. –Thomas Paine

George Bernard Shaw

“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul”. –George Bernard Shaw

Edgar Allan Poe

“The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world”. –Edgar Allan Poe