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“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Freedom and crime are so indissolubly connected to each other, like... well, like the movement of the aero and its velocity. When the velocity of the aero = 0, it doesn't move; when the freedom of a person = 0, he doesn't commit crime. This is clear. The sole means of ridding man of crime is to rid him of freedom.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero