Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.