"If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt." - Charlemagne
"If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt." - Charlemagne
"So what oppresses us and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously. What overwhelms people when they are about to leave friends, family, old haunts, and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts." - Epictetus
"When you were in the military, did you ever kill anyone?"
"Well, I was a cook, so yeah, probably."
"In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time." - John Stuart Mill
"When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a communist" - Unknown
"If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say 'Come and See', and I looked and beheld a pale horse: And his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth." - King James Bible, Revelations Ch. 6 Verse 7-8