User:Maprov

Some quotes I find interesting:
--Voltaire
 * "Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."

--Eric Hoffer
 * "An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

--J.S. Mill
 * "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that."

--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
 * "With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."

Epictetus
 * "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."

--Jonathan Swift
 * "It is useless to try to reason a man out of thinking he was never reasoned into."

--David Hume
 * "It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work."

--Bertrand Russell
 * "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."



Thomas Jefferson
 * "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

Jeremy Bentham
 * "Submit not to any decree or other act of power, of the justice of which you are not yourself perfectly convinced."

Edward R. Murrow
 * "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

H.L. Mencken
 * "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

Henry David Thoreau
 * "I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe— "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."