"Responsibility rests upon recognition"

-Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

"I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it."

Homer H. Hickam Jr., Rocket Boys

"A leader needs the truth, but an emperor does not consistently hear it from his underlings."

-James Comey

"The free exchange of ideas is the most valuable intellectual currency."

-Viva Frei

"For as long as humans have clothed themselves with authority of any sort - civil or religious - abuse has followed."

-Terryl L. Givens in Feeding the Flock

"We must make the market serve humanity rather than have humanity serve the market."

-Andrew Yang

"Long ago I learned not to argue with Marxists and flat Earthers."

-Arthur C. Clarke