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Excellent Quotations
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Collected by Zack Smith.

On the Public

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
- Mark Twain
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on the truth.
- Edith Sitwell
The majority seeks power, status, and wealth, and not truth. Their opinions are of no value.
- Plato
You, the public, are a many headed monster.
- Horace, Epistles
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
- Unknown
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell

On the Media

The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."
- William Colby, Former Director of the CIA
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
- Noam Chomsky

On Travel

You should travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.
- Susan Heller
A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.
- Moslih Eddin Saadi
The longest journey is the journey inward.
- Dag Hammarskjold
The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.
- Saint Augustine

On Liberty

If liberty means anything it means the liberty to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
One must live what one thinks or end up thinking what one has lived.
- Pierre Borget
In Czechoslovakia nothing works and everything matters, in America everything works and nothing matters.
- Vaclav Havel

On Conflict

The assumption that there isn't enough to go around leads to the assumption that its you or me, and you have to work to prove you are better than the other guy and work isn't something you want to do. Instead you should do what you wanted to do when you were a kid.
- Buckminster Fuller

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