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  • #1
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
    Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

  • #2
    Diogenes of Sinope
    “I am a citizen of the world.”
    Diogenes of Sinope, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

  • #3
    Baruch Spinoza
    “Blessed are the weak who think they are good because they have no claws.”
    Baruch Spinoza

  • #4
    Diogenes of Sinope
    “Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
    Diogenes of Sinope

  • #5
    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #6
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #7
    Jon   Stewart
    “If "con" is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress? Or did we just fucking blow your mind?!?”
    Jon Stewart, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

  • #8
    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
    Isaac Asimov

  • #9
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
    “To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.”
    Talleyrand

  • #10
    Baruch Spinoza
    “I realised that all the things which were the source and object of my anxiety held nothing of good or evil in themselves save in so far as the mind was influenced by them,”
    Baruch Spinoza, Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters

  • #11
    Alan             Moore
    “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #12
    Jonathan Haidt
    “When Freud was asked what a normal person should be able to do well, he is reputed to have said, “Love and work.”
    Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

  • #13
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

  • #14
    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #15
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #16
    Alain Damasio
    “Vis chaque instant comme si c'était le dernier. Vis chaque instant comme si c'était le premier.”
    Alain Damasio, La Horde du Contrevent

  • #17
    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #19
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #20
    Winston Churchill
    “Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.”
    Winston Churchill



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