"Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock."

-- Kurt Tucholsky

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“Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.”
“Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.”

Source : Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837). “Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.16
“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).”

Source : Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.100, Penguin
“Accept nothing nearly right or good enough”
“Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.”
“I am a stranger to half measures.”

Source : Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.33, Anchor
“For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.”

Source : "The Wise Way to Crowdsource a Manhunt". www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2013.
“Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?”

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