David

“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.”
― Mark Twain

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
― George Orwell