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A state of emergency is always the prelude to something worse.

— Günter Grass

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules.

— Banksy

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

— Benjamin Franklin

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will.

— Frederick Douglass

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

— Victor Hugo

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

— H.L. Mencken

The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.

— Robert Anton Wilson

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

— Desmond Tutu

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

—Margaret Mead

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." – Socrates

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." – George Bernard Shaw

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." – George Eliot

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." – Alan Watts

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." – Plutarch

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