admin's Quotes

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do"

Before enlightenment, chopping wood carrying water
After enlightenment, chopping wood carrying water

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid to hate so we will rally behind them."

"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one."

"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men"

"As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities."

"The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds-where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough-a modest living-and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities."

"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."