You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us, but we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying... I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.

The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.

Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.