On Politics:
• "If one man has no right to command all other men--the expedient of despotism--neither has he any right to command even one other man; nor yet have ten men, or a million, the right to command even one other man, for ten times nothing is nothing, and a million times nothing is nothing." - Isabel Paterson
• "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini
• "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." - James Bovard
• "For why should my freedom be determined by someone else's conscience?" - I Corinthians 10:29
• "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire
• "There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free. Either what we hold to be right and good and true is right and good and true for all mankind or we're just another robber tribe." - King Arthur, First Knight
• "Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves." - Herbert Marcuse
• "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis
• "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." - Unknown, largely attributed to Alexander Tytler
• "A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims." - Ayn Rand
• "Libertarianism is the very heart and soul of conservatism." - Ronald Reagan
• "What good fortune for those in power that people do not think." - Adolph Hitler
• "Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding." - Batman Begins

On Religion:
• "We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." - Gene Roddenberry
• "For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• "Ironically, guys like Jerry Falwell insist on interpreting the Good Book very literally. But put them in front of Teletubbies, and suddenly they become masters of subtext, cultural analysis, and innuendo. Go figure." - Susan Jane Gilman
• "I may have some very conservative personal feelings but I feel everyone has the right to live their life differently. I might think what you do will put you in hell but I'm going to defend your right to get there." - Rev. Al Sharpton
• "I don’t reject your Christ; I love your Christ. It’s just that so many of you Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Ghandi
• "Question with boldness the very existence of God, for if there be a God, He must surely rather honest questioning over blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson
• "He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a house. He didn’t go to college. He never visited the big city. He never traveled more than 200 miles from the place where he was born. He never did any of the things that one usually associates with greatness. He had no credentials but himself. Yet all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together have not affected the life of man on this earth as much as that one, solitary life." - Martin Luther King Jr.
• “The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.” - Albert Einstein
• “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” - Albert Einstein

On Philosophy:
• "My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." - Ayn Rand
• "There is not one shred of evidence to suggest the notion that life is meant to be taken seriously."
• "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." - John Wesley
• "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

On Metaphysics:
• “There is only one fundamental alternative in the universe: existence or nonexistence—and it pertains to a single class of entities: to living organisms. The existence of inanimate matter is unconditional, the existence of life is not: it depends on a specific course of action. Matter is indestructible, it changes its forms, but it cannot cease to exist. It is only a living organism that faces a constant alternative: the issue of life or death. Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies; its chemical elements remain, but its life goes out of existence. It is only the concept of ‘Life’ that makes the concept of ‘Value’ possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.” – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• “Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.” – Mamonides

On Morality:
• “The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.” - Ayn Rand
• "Through centuries of scourges and disasters, brought about by your code of morality, you have cried that your code had been broken, that the scourges were punishment for breaking it, that men were too weak and too selfish to spill all the blood it required. You damned man, you damned existence, you damned this earth, but never dared to question your code. Your victims took the blame and struggled on, with your curses as reward for their martyrdom-while you went on crying that your code was noble, but human nature was not good enough to practice it. And no one rose to ask the question: Good? By what standard?" - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• "The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. Withdraw your sanction. Withdraw your support." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• "It's not enough to survive... one has to be worthy of survival" - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

On Individualism:
• "No society can ever be so large as one man." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self." - Arthur Miller, After the Fall
• "Let your estimate be your own concern. I will stand on mine." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand
• "Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe." - H. Rap Brown
• "I don't try to be a man of the people, but I do try to be a man for the people." - Gracchus, Gladiator
• "To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." - e e Cummings
• "Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
• "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." – Friedrich Nietzsche
• "A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack." - Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
• "It's good if you have enemies. It means you stood up for something in life." - Winston Churchill

On Society:
• "I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary." - Billy Joel
• "Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf." - Orson Scott Card
• "That boy is vulnerable. He has too great a capacity for joy. What will he do with it in a world where there's so little occasion for it?" - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• "There's something wrong in the world. There's always been. Something no one has ever named or explained." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• "I keep thinking that parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• "Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant." - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Alpha Centauri

On Truth:
• "Whoever rebukes a person will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue." - Proverbs 28:23
• "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on." - Winston Churchill
• "We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger." - Tad Williams
• "This above all, to thine own self be true." - Polonius, Hamlet
• "And then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." - John 8:32
• "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence." - Frederick Douglass
• "If you want to defeat any kind of fraud – comply with it literally, adding nothing of your own to disguise its nature." – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." – George Bernard Shaw
• "The engineer does not believe in black magic, voodoo, or rain dances. The engineer believes in scientific truth, that is, truth that can be verified by experiment." – Samuel Florman

On Happiness:
• "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" - Matthew 6:27
• "A cheerful heart is good medicine." - Proverbs 17:22
• "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." - George Bernard Shaw
• "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain." - Anonymous
• "Always remember that if you are willing to laugh at yourself no one can ever laugh at you, only with you." - Tucker Hannah
• "I went to kindergarten and they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said I wanted to be happy. They told me I didn't understand the question, and I told them they didn't understand life." - Unknown

On Motivation:
• "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - Calvin Coolidge
• "Some people see things the way they are and ask 'Why?'. Others dream of things that never were and ask 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw
• "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." - Edmund Burke
• "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
On Education:
• "Teaching is creating situations in which students can escape only by thinking." - Anonymous
• "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." - Galielo Galilei
• "Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty." - Albert Einstein
• “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” – Albert Einstein

On Logic
• "If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics." - Roger Bacon
• "It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs." - Aristotle
• "An emotion that clashes with your reason, an emotion that you cannot explain or control, is only the carcass of that stale thinking which you forbade your mind to revise." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• "Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." - Jean de la Bruyère

On Emotion:
• "It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• "He who has overcome his fears will truly be free." - Aristotle
• "A feeling that changes never existed in the first place." Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
• "Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that a person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

On Love:
• “Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.” – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• "A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?" - King Arthur, First Knight

On Beauty:
• "Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them, if they do not expressly mention them; but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree." - Aristotle
• "It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure." - Albert Einstein
• “After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.” – Albert Einstein

Miscellaneous:
• "If knowledge is power, than to be unknown is to be unconquerable." - Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
• "There is nothing which for my part I like better than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire, whether the way is smooth and easy, or rugged and difficult." - Plato, The Republic
• "When we fought the Cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction. But we never answered the question “Why?”. Why are we as a people worth saving? We still commit murder because of greed and spite and jealousy, and we still visit all of our sins upon our children. We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything we've done, like we did with the Cylons. We decided to play God, create life. When that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play God and then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
• "Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision." - V.S. Naipaul
• "It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature--and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning--and those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are of no concern of mine; it is not me or The Fountainhead that they will betray: it is their own souls." - Ayn Rand, Introduction to The Fountainhead
• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein