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- Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
- Paulo Freire
- Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
- Paul Valéry (1871 - 1945)
- Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), 65 AD
- Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?
- Natalie Clifford Barney
- If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Orator
- All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
- In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America. . .
- The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
- Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas
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