Farmer

🇺🇦Nestor Makhno

Military

1888–1934

"Anarchism — a life of freedom and creative independence for humanity."

Samuel Butler (novelist)

Literature

1835–1902

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

🇺🇸Kristi Noem

Politics

b. 1971

"We must stop spending money that we just don’t have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth."

Michael Jordan

Sports

b. 1963

"Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion"

🇺🇸John Perry Barlow

Literature

libertarian socialism

1947–2018

"I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace."

🇬🇧Saint Patrick

Religion

385–461

"I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing "have I labored," neither has my exile been "in vain."

🇬🇧Robert Roy MacGregor

1671–1734

"Rob Roy film at the Internet Movie Database"

🇺🇸Larry Craig

Politics

b. 1945

"Thank you all very much for coming out today."

🇬🇧Samuel Butler (poet)

Literature

1835–1902

"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."

🇵🇱Witold Pilecki

Military

1901–1948

"During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people were killed. Over the next 2 years, 3 Million."

🇺🇸Mark Sanford

Politics

b. 1960

"I think it would be much better for the country and for personally . I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone."

"Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk."

🇺🇸Wendell Berry

Literature

b. 1934

"We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species."

🇺🇸Chuck Grassley

Politics

b. 1933

"All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN"

🇲🇽Emiliano Zapata

Social Activism

1879–1919

"Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny."

🇬🇧C. E. M. Joad

Philosophy

1891–1953

"The thought of the Upanishads is bold and free, and their general conclusion is that mystical experience is the pathway to reality."

🇯🇵Masanobu Fukuoka

Philosophy

1913–2008

"My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts."

🇬🇧Jimmy Carter

Politics

1965–2024

"I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country — energy and malaise."

🇺🇸James Eastland

Politics

anti-communism

1904–1986

"The Senator from New Hampshire certainly does not believe that the Governor of New York would clean Communists out of the Government service, when New York, for all practical purposes, is a Communist State."

🇺🇸Benjamin Banneker

Science

1731–1806

"Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners."

🇺🇸Joseph McCarthy

Politics

1908–1957

"Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general."

🇦🇺Bill Mollison

Science

1928–2016

"Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order."

🇺🇸Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Literature

1964–2020

"One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it."

🇺🇸Rick Perry

Politics

b. 1950

"I'm really not worried about the president's birth certificate. It's fun to poke at him a little bit and say, how 'bout let's see your grades and your birth certificate."

🇿🇦Eugène Terre'Blanche

Literature

Afrikaner nationalism

1941–2010

"I have always been made out as a racist, someone who hates black people. I don't hate them. I grew up with them. I just know there are many differences between whites and the blacks and I will always believe it."

🇺🇸Philipp Meyer

Literature

1896–1962

"Mental note if you make it to forty remember on how all those fucks treated her. Stop being an asshole while you're still young."

🇺🇸Jason Smith (politician)

Literature

b. 1980

"We shouldn’t be rewarding companies with American tax dollars who use the American capitalist system to achieve billions in profits, but then disown the same history of a country which inherently allowed them to succeed."

🇺🇸Ammon Hennacy

Social Activism

pacifism

1893–1970

"A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world."

"We don't allow sludge at the Palace of Wisdom"

Robert Burns

Music

Romanticism

1759–1796

"That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane."

🇺🇸Harry F. Byrd

Politics

1887–1966

"If we can organize the Southern states for massive resistance to this order... the rest of the country will realize that racial integration is not going to be accepted in the South."

🇬🇧Jeremy Clarkson

Journalism

b. 1960

"The first thing that will strike you as odd in Japan is how polite everyone is. Quite apart from the neverending bowing, they have obsequiousness down to an art that even the Chinese haven't mastered."