- No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. - Voltaire
- One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. - Carl Sagan
- It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.- G. H. Hardy
- Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. - Margaret Chase Smith
- A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. - Mohandas K. Gandhi
- To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. - Robert Louis Stevenson
The majority is not always right - Otto von Bismarck