Phil Williams > Phil's Quotes

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
― Anonymous Greek Proverb

“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex,
the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.”
― Bill Mollison

“Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.”
― Michael Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
― Ayn Rand

“The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.”
― Johann von Goethe

“All the world's problems can be solved in a garden.”
― Geoff Lawton

“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
― Anonymous

“The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”
― Max Stirner

“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
― Albert A. Bartlett

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“This and no other is the root from
which a tyrant springs; when he
first appears he is a protector.”
― Plato

“The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resist it.” - John Hay”
― Anonymous