Come on all you freedom fighters
good news to you I’ll tell
of how the good old freedom ride has come in here to dwell
which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
They say in Hines county, no neutrals have they met
You’re either for the freedom ride or you’re tom for Ross Barnett
My father was a freedom fighter and I’m a freedom fighters son
and I’ll stick to the freedom ride until every battles won

-James Farmer, Co-founder of the Freedom Riders

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)

Ah, a nice description of some of the people who live in Berkeley.

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

There are three essential forms of government. There is despotism, and what you have to cultivate in people for a despotism is fear. There is one or another form of Monarchy, and the right set of dispositions for a Monarchy are going to be grounded in considerations of honor. Then there is the Republic which depends on nothing less than the cultivation of virtue.

-Montescu (sp?)

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And thus is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare

If you know what it is that you are looking for, then indeed there no need to undertake a search, and if you don’t know what it is that you are looking for then really there’s no basis upon which to conduct a search. Hence the search for truth becomes an idle activity.

-Mino in regards to Socrates’ search for truth. Of course Sacrate’s puts the smack down on Mino’s argument.

We are like puppets, and the Gods can move us any which way they will by pulling on these strings, but we have one string that we can pull back on, and that string is the golden string of reason.

-Plato

Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

-Richard Feynman

Having been attacked by al Qaeda, for us now to go bombing Iraq in response would be like our invading Mexico after the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor.

Richard Clarke
Against All Enemies

Remove Justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a grand scale.

Augustine
The City of God