Kandid

“A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”
― Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

“There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

“She could but refuse me, and better be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World