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Some quotes I find interesting:

• "Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."

--Voltaire

• "An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

--Eric Hoffer

• "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that."

--J.S. Mill

• "With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."

--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

• "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."

Epictetus

• "It is useless to try to reason a man out of thinking he was never reasoned into."

--Jonathan Swift

• "It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work."

--David Hume

• "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."

--Bertrand Russell

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"The freedom of all is essential to my freedom." - Bakunin

• "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

Thomas Jefferson

• "Submit not to any decree or other act of power, of the justice of which you are not yourself perfectly convinced."

Jeremy Bentham

• "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

Edward R. Murrow

• "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

H.L. Mencken

• "I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe— "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."

Henry David Thoreau