"The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself." - Rita Mae Brown

"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."- Rene Descartes

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

"The most violent element in society is ignorance. " - Emma Goldman

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. "-Albert Einstein

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."-Thomas Edison

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -Oscar Wilde

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune." -Noam Chomsky

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.- Karl Marx

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
- George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

"If you don't control your mind, someone else will." - John Allston

"In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable." - Sigmund Freud

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. - Cecil Beaton