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  • #1
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #2
    Will Rogers
    “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
    Will Rogers

  • #3
    J.M. Barrie
    “Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #4
    Booker T. Washington
    “I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
    Booker T. Washington

  • #5
    Booker T. Washington
    “Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
    Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

  • #6
    Booker T. Washington
    “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
    Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

  • #7
    Booker T. Washington
    “You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
    Booker T. Washington

  • #8
    James Madison
    “The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”
    James Madison

  • #9
    Euripides
    “When one with honeyed words but evil mind
    Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
    Euripides, Orestes

  • #10
    Aldous Huxley
    “A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”
    Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

  • #11
    Thomas Pynchon
    “All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.”
    Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

  • #12
    Aeschylus
    “For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”
    Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

  • #13
    Frank Herbert
    “Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

  • #14
    Bill Willingham
    “Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.”
    Bill Willingham, Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland



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