"Your honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." - Eugene Debs
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." - H.L. Mencken
"The perfect is the enemy of the good." - François-Marie Arouet pen name Voltaire
"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell." - Karl Popper
"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude." - Karl Popper
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” – Epictetus