“It is a common error of tyrants, and their tools, to judge of all men [as] themselves. They reckon, in laying out their plans with absolute certainty, on the selfishness and folly of mankind.” — Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, October 21, 1856

"Anyone who thinks witch-burning is wrong is now considered a witch. That’s where Trumpian Evangelicals are now. Anyone who points out the immorality of their positions is a witch to them, as conscience always appears to those who have disowned it." — @GrailSnail

“Don’t forget – no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.” — Charles de Lint

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." — Albert Camus

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” — Frank Wilhoit

“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” — Arundhati Roy

"I know it sounds banal as the dickens, but I find a lot of people (including myself) constantly forget that a finished project that doesn’t do everything you wanted it to is infinitely more valuable than a perfect project that never gets finished." — Sam Sykes, via Twitter (@SamSykesSwears)