All of our Quotes

People don't realize how hard it is to speak the truth to a world full of people that don't realize they're living a lie.
—Edward Snowden freedom

I don’t want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.
—Edward Snowden government life

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
—Edward Snowden government

If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.
—Edward Snowden philosophy

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different that saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
—Edward Snowden freedom government

War is a place where young people who don't know each other and don't hate each other kill each other, by the decision of old people who know each other and hate each other, but don't kill each other.
—Unknown Soldier / Definition of War government war

We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn government

Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired
virtues under its new name Social Justice.
—Thomas Sowell freedom government life

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-anything except reason.
—Thomas Sowell conspiracy education government

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
—Thomas Sowell government

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
—Thomas Sowell government

What exactly is your 'fair share of what 'someone else' has worked for?
—Thomas Sowell government

Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?
—Thomas Sowell freedom government

I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but 'not greed' to want to take someone else’s money.
—Thomas Sowell economics

I am so old that I can remember when other people's achievements were considered to be an inspiration rather than a grievance.
—Thomas Sowell life philosophy

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.
—Wole Soyinka freedom government

Hide the rum.
—Captain Jack Sparrow life

Now - bring me that horizon.
—Captain Jack Sparrow adventure

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
—Herbert Spencer

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.
—Freeya Stark