Giles

“A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”
― Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State

“Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“To turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government, save one that boasts of its repressiveness.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“There is no freedom of religion without a government that is free from religion.”
― Andrew L Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American