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- One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Victory is a political fiction.
- Anonymous
- Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- Francious de la Rochefoucauld
- Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
- Bierce
- Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
- C. J. Jung
- A cult is a religion with no political power.
- Tom Wolfe (1931 - )
- People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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