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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing… — John Milton
It is upon each soul to recognize its limit. — Janet Morris
Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged. — J Harlen Bretz
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as laws are natural,… — Mikhail Bakunin
In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding… — Peter Kropotkin
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He… — Benjamin Tucker
He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is… — Benjamin Tucker
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose… — Murray Rothbard
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without… — Eric Temple Bell
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. — Edmund Burke
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. — Thomas Carlyle
Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles. — Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy,… — John Dewey
The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine… — John Dewey
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the… — William James
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church.… — John Calvin
If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is… — John Calvin
We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance… — Matthew Henry
In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier. — Gustav Mahler
I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as… — Busta Rhymes
Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his… — Murray Rothbard
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up… — John Maynard Keynes
The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we… — Norbert Wiener
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols,… — Alfred Korzybski

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