Schooling is not the same as education

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.
~ Mark Twain

Stuck in ignorance

"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."
- Leo Tolstoy

Secrets of legality and legitimacy

"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of people living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it." 
Frédéric Bastiat

The State

Ludwig von Mises: "The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments." - Omnipotent Government

Truth against government

Method of science

"There is no inductive method which could lead to the fundamental concepts of physics … in error are those theorists who believe that theory comes inductively from experience."
– Albert Einstein, The Method of Theoretical Physics, Oxford, 1933

The foolishness of revenge

"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and soon the whole world is blind and toothless!" -- Mahatma Gandhi