No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. -Nathaniel Hawthorne

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoi

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? -Saint Augustine

A thief believes everybody steals. -E. W. Howe

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief. José Martí

Freedom is neither guaranteed nor automatic; not even in the United States. Left unguarded, it can slip away like a thief in the night. -Joy Reid

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him. -Alexei Navalny

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. -Benjamin Franklin

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. -George Eliot

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. -William Hazlitt

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. -Niccolo Machiavelli

Una nación sin elecciones libres es una nación sin voz, sin ojos y sin brazos. -Octavio Paz

La peor de las democracias es mil veces preferible a la mejor de las dictaduras. -Ruy Barbosa

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. -Michel Foucault

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage. -Yevgeny Yevtushenko

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. -James Monroe

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. -Thomas Jefferson

No legacy is so rich as honesty. -William Shakespeare

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves. -Leo Tolstoy

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed? -Steven Wright

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. -Friedrich Durrenmatt

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. -Jonathan Swift

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. -Aeschylus