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Inspirational quote image featuring Leo Tolstoi's quote about intelligent women

22. December 2018

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"Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women." Leo Tolstoi

Mark Twain quote image about character and language

22. December 2018

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"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation." Mark Twain

Inspirational quote image featuring Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

22. December 2018

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"Many priceless things can be bought." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Inspirational Henry Ford quote about the value of old wood, old books, and old friends

20. December 2018

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"There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy." Henry Ford

Business quote image about patience and foresight by Henry Ford

20. December 2018

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"Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business" Henry Ford

Inspirational quote image featuring a quote by John Lennon

25. September 2018

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"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot." John Lennon

Inspirational quote image featuring Georges I. Gurdjieff about human stupidity and God's mercy

23. September 2018

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"Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God." Georges I. Gurdjieff

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote about community, shared memories, and patience

18. September 2018

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"Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Inspirational quote image featuring Heinrich Böll and the theme of holiness and genius

17. September 2018

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"Holiness and genius defy definition." Heinrich Böll

Inspirational quote image by Voltaire about patience, courage, and faith in daily life

17. September 2018

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"Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake." Voltaire

Gratitude and appreciation quote attributed to Voltaire

15. September 2018

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"When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." Voltaire

15. September 2018

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"Let no man thirst for good beer." Samuel Adams

Voltaire quote about freedom of speech and defending the right to express opinions

17. September 2016

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"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire

Quote image featuring Alexander von Humboldt on the unity of humanity and freedom

15. September 2016

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"By asserting the unity of the human race, we also oppose every unpleasant assumption of higher and lower human races. There are more teachable, more highly educated, spiritually cultivated, refined peoples, but no nobler tribes. All are equally destined for freedom; freedom, which in more primitive states belongs to the individual, and in state life, with the enjoyment of political institutions, belongs to the community as a right." Alexander von Humboldt

Quote image featuring Umberto Eco on learning and responsibility

1. August 2016

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"Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do." Umberto Eco

Inspirational Lafayette quote image about liberty, passion, and conviction

6. July 2016

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"An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician." Lafayette

Freedom quote graphic featuring Ayn Rand

6. July 2016

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"Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing." Ayn Rand

Walter Lippmann quote about freedom and freedom of expression

5. June 2016

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"The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life." Walter Lippmann

Emma Goldman quote about women, freedom, and equality

1. May 2016

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"Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open." Emma Goldman

Liberty and security quote by Harry Browne

1. May 2016

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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats." Harry Browne

Quote about the engineering of consent by Edward Bernays

26. April 2016

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"The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest." Edward Bernays

H. P. Lovecraft quote about physical force and human decisions

3. April 2016

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"The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous." H. P. Lovecraft

Inspirational quote image featuring Friedrich Nietzsche

1. March 2016

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"Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be." Friedrich Nietzsche

Murray Rothbard quote about liberty, morality, technological progress, and modern capitalism

1. February 2016

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"Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the Industrial Revolution and the flowering of modern capitalism." Murray Rothbard