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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. — H. L. Mencken
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. — Bertrand Russell
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. — George Santayana
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. — Lysander Spooner
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have… — Hunter S. Thompson
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing… — Hunter S. Thompson
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. — Hunter S. Thompson
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison… — Hunter S. Thompson
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. — Henry David Thoreau
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you. — Cornelius Vanderbilt
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only… — Swami Vivekananda
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. — Voltaire
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. — H.G. Wells
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of… — Mao Zedong
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea. — Mao Zedong
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy,… — Elie Wiesel
What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin. — Robert Green Ingersoll
I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. — H. L. Mencken
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for… — Thomas Ligotti
Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like… — Ernest Hemingway
Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy,… — Oscar Wilde
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it. — Giordano Bruno

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