Freedom

The freedom the masses crave is not freedom of self-expression and self-realization, but freedom from the intolerable burden of an autonomous existence — freedom from the burden of free choice. … (Elsewhere: “the intellectual sterility and emotional monotony of...

Reasonable people

“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” – GB Shaw (quoted by __ Hill, the founder of Proj Gutenberg)

Under the roof

Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women and hard-eyed husbands and deluges of Lethe. — Emerson, Experience.