"The sanity of society is a balance..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.”

“As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.”

“Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.”

“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.”

“Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue. For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

“the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.”

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”

“The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”