Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian Opinion, October 1, 1903.
For every one, as he is himself, so he has a self-propriety, else could he not be himself; and of this no second may presume to deprive any of without manifest violation and affront to the very principles of nature and of the rules of equity and justice between man and man. Mine and thine cannot be, except this be. No man has power over my rights and liberties, and I over no man’s. I may be but an individual, enjoy my self and my self-propriety and may right myself no more than my self, or presume any further; if I do, I am an encroacher and an invader upon another man’s right — to which I have no right. For by natural birth all men are equally and alike born to like propriety, liberty and freedom. . . .
From “Richard Overton shoots An Arrow against all Tyrants from the prison of Newgate into the prerogative bowels of the arbitrary House of Lords and all other usurpers and tyrants whatsoever” (1646).
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
Avicenna, On Medicine.
It’s a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It’s a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it’s totally out of control.
Dr. Ron Paul, television interview while running for the presidency as a Libertarian in 1987.
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world.
The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it — when unpopular.
Mark Twain, “The United States of Lyncherdom” (1901), first printed in Albert Bigelow Paine, ed., Europe and Elsewhere (1914).