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He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

—Sir William Drummond

Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.

―George Seaton

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

―From “States of Matter” by David L. Goodstein, Chapter 1.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

―Jonathan Swift

I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.

―James Baldwin

The best way out is always through.

― Robert Frost

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

― Benjamin Franklin

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

―John Kenneth Galbraith

Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury.

―Cato the Elder

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

―James Baldwin

The master’s tools will never be used to dismantle the master’s house.

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

―Grey’s Law

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

—Dwight Eisenhower

Often injustice lies in what you aren’t doing, not only in what you are doing.

―Marcus Aurelius

The big thieves hang the little ones.

―Czech Proverb

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

―Kenneth Galbraith

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

—George Orwell

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

—Sir William Osler

It is impossible for a person to begin to learn what he already thinks he knows.

―Epictetus