“It’s a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.” David Harris, (1946-) American journalist, author. Source: documentary ‘Carry It On’ (1970). Source Reference David Harris Quote

“The persecuting spirit has its origin morally in the disposition of man to domineer over his fellow creatures; intellectually, in the assumption that one’s own opinions are infallibly correct.” John Fiske, (1842-1901) American philosopher, historian. Source Reference John Fiske Quote

“Don’t forget that pure democracy is a form of collectivism – it readily sacrifices individual rights to majority wishes. Since it involves no constitutional bill of rights, or at least, no working and effective one, the majority-of-the-moment can and does…

“True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.” Felix Emmanuel Schelling,…

“Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.” Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677) Dutch philosopher of Sephardi Portuguese origin. Source: cited in Atlantic Monthly, January 1955. Source Reference Baruch Spinoza Quote

“The businessman’s tool is values; the bureucrat’s  tool is fear.” Ayn Rand, [Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum] (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. Source Reference Ayn Rand Quote