"How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind."

“I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.”

“To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those necessary to the common welfare, and in all its parts it should be kept as close to the people and as directly within their control as may be.”

Source : Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.171, Cosimo, Inc.

“All I can say is that the only person that can stop you from achieving your goals is yourself. If you believe, then everyone else will too.”

“I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.”

“Baseball was my refuge. When I came on the field, I did my job, and did the best I could and focused on that. Then I went home and I was miserable. That was pretty much my routine every day.?”

“I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet and that would mean challenging the whole capitalist industrial form of food production.”

“Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?”

“Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.”

Source : Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.45