“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” — Joseph Stalin General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879 - 1953
“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
“Adam was but human — this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.” – Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson