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“If I can’t play soccer, I don’t want any part of your revolution.”
—motto of the Anarchist Soccer League, Washington, DC

“We’ve GOT to make noises in larger amounts!
So open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”
—Dr. Seuss

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
—Sigmund Freud

“Never was anything achieved without danger.”
—Niccolo Macchiavelli

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
—George Orwell

“When life hands you lemons, say, ‘Yeah? Well, I like lemons! What else ya got?’”
—Henry Rollins

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You are about ten percent as cool as you think you are, and if you live to be a million years old, you will never be as cool as Chuck Berry.”
—Henry Rollins

“Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.”
—St. Francis of Assisi

I used to have a configurable gizmo for my email that inserted a quote in my signature; I hacked it to put in my own list of quotes. So everybody knew what a warped guy I was for being influenced and inspired by these weird sayings every time I sent email.

I haven’t inflicted that on anyone else for a while, and I believe I need the inspiration myself, so I’m going to drag some of them out of the mothballs and post them here.

(Another open-ended goal. In general, I do not do open-ended goals because I never know when I’m done. In this case, I will say I’m done with this when I say I’m done.)

So, anyway, I’ll start with:

“The most violent element of society is ignorance.”
—Emma Goldman