Dissent Decree

Everybody who is honest is interesting.
Quentin Crisp 

The average man is a conformist accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson 

A genius is the one most like himself.
Thelonius Monk

Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common course of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling on his hands will continue to tumble on his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Samuel Johnson 

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
Thomas H. Huxley 

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost 

As an active privilege, [free speech] ranks with the privilege of committing murder: we may exercise it if we are willing to take the consequences. Murder is forbidden both in form and in fact; free speech is granted in form but forbidden in fact. By the common estimate both are crimes, and are held in deep odium by all civilized peoples. Murder is sometimes punished, free speech, always — when committed. Which is seldom.
Mark Twain (The Privilege of the Grave, 1905)

All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
Albert Einstein 

God has no religion.
Mohandas K. Gahdhi 

The limits of my language are the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein 

How we spend our days is of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard 

The mind of which we are unaware is aware of us.
Ronald D. Laing 

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw