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- People often say that this person is or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973
- Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty, 1859
- In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws.
- Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755), The Spirit of Laws, 1748
- Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Civil Disobedience, 1849
- Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Reader's Digest, March 1956
- If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), 1946
- When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- Folks who never do more than their paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
- Sam Ewing
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