"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." ~Winston Churchill~

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." ~Phillip K. Dick~

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." ~Frederick Douglass~

"Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat." ~1848 Manifesto of the Communist Party~

"I propose a quick and dirty test for large organizations: look at photos of leaders and top management. If they all look vaguely similar, you're not looking at an open-source meritocracy." ~Teresa Nielsen Hayden~