link to original reddit post by /u/ihaphleas

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry. -- Nassim Taleb?

It is as difficult to change someone’s opinions as it is to change his tastes. -- Nassim Taleb?

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation. -- Nassim Taleb?

No rulers doesn't mean no rules. -- ihaphleas

“Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.” ― Michel Foucault

“Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action.” ― Michel Foucault

“Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.” -- Michel Foucault

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. -- Ronald Reagan

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. -- Plato [Notice that this can be taken also as "declining to be self-ruling".]

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. -- Edward R. Murrow

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. -- Thomas Jefferson

Governments need armies to protect them from their enslaved and oppressed subjects. -- Tolstoy

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. -- George Bernard Shaw [Recall people were talking about the "sanctity" of the capitol?]

Good government is no substitute for self-government. -- Mahatma Gandhi

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Government doesn't solve problems, it subsidizes them. -- Ronald Reagan

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. -- Winston Churchill