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"As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it--it is like hitting a child." - Mark Twain

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"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation." - Noam Chomsky

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"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself." -Carl G. Jung

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"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true." -Leonard Cohen

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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." -Robert Frost

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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -Abraham Lincoln


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"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." -Franklin D. Roosevelt


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"There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe