To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.Virginia Woolf
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.Virginia Woolf
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.Nikola Tesla
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.Theodore Roosevelt
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.Theodore Roosevelt
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.Theodore Roosevelt