"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master." - Commisioner Pravin Lal, Alpha Centauri (game from Firaxis)
"Free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people who's leaders at last lose their grip on information will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." - Extended from above
"He who would trade a little bit of freedom for a little bit of safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Anyone who fights with monsters should make sure that he does not in the process become a monster. And when you look for a long time into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal." - Elwood P Dowd
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. -- Samuel Gompers
Never argue with an idiot, he'll just lower you to his level and beat you with experience.
"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.
Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania in "How to Go Into Politics": "Never get into an argument with a preacher or a newspaper; the preacher always calls on heaven as witness that he is right, and the newspaper always has the last word with its readers."
the free market [is] a wonderful institution for providing people with the motivation to do what the rest of humanity wants them to do. - Apuleius, kuro5hin, "Peak Oil: the next big thing" http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/8/213958/1869
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." -Aeschylus
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan