Consider an eclectic array of sources.
Understand that psychopaths can make true statements, too.
Learn the truth. Speak the truth.
"I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry, and other fine things."
— John Quincy Adams
"The dispensing of injustice is always in the right hands."
— Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, 1962
"The tax gatherer is the very man I have to deal with- for it is, after all, with men and not with parchment that I quarrel-"
— Henry David Thoreau
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."
— George Bernard Shaw
"What luck for rulers that men do not think."
— Adolf Hitler
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”
— Max Stirner
"The answer to the problem of humanity is the integrity of the individual."
— Jordan Peterson
"A society on the brink of social breakdown is the healthiest situation for individuals."
"The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does."
"From what I've noticed based on quantum mechanics' need for an observer as a part of any system—that's big news for our field of study. Because what it means is, hallucinations are just as real as anything else. I mean, a hallucination is not like a Chevrolet; but on the other hand, a Chevrolet is not like a hallucination. Why should we demand that these things co-map over each other? A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro, or anything else that falls through your life."
— Terence McKenna
"Through the future shines the sun of splendid struggle."
— Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light."
— Plato
"The United States of America is not to be respected as a nation. It is not a favored group. There is no magic, no cultural supremacy in the Red, White, and Blue. The American Experiment is to be respected only because it taught people that they are worth more than the law.”
— Jeremy Locke, The End of All Evil
"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
— Thucydides
"We can accept God becoming man to save man; but not man becoming god to save himself."
— Vernon Linwood Howard
"They must find it difficult- those who have taken authority as truth rather than truth as authority."
— Gerald Massey
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
— Hélder Câmara
"When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom."
— Confucius
"For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the state does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through."
— Voltairine de Cleyre
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
— Mark Twain
"There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live."
— John Adams
