“If you scratch any cynic, you'll find a disappointed idealist.” - George Carlin

“It doesn't matter if you have nothing to hide. Because privacy isn't about something to hide. Privacy is about something to protect. And the thing to protect is a free and open society.” - Edward Snowden

“When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think as I really think; after a time it always seems as though they want to banish me from myself and rob me of my soul.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“With rebellion, awareness is born.” - Albert Camus

“You don't pay taxes. They take taxes.” - Chris Rock

“We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities others ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal — like all junkies.” - Hunter S. Thompson

“The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.” - H. L. Mencken

“I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.” - Milton Friedman

“Bitcoin does not waste energy — it consumes energy waste.” - Conner Brown

“We must maintain our integrity and be true to our principles, the opportunity to make a lasting difference is too great not to.” - Ross Ulbricht

“You can't have a government like this without an income tax, but we don't want a government like this. This is not the type of government that was designed by the founders of the country. This is not what was written in the Constitution. We've only had an income tax since 1913. But if you want a welfare state, and if you want to police the world and pay for the defense of Japan and Germany, give foreign aid to the Soviet Union. You not only need the income tax you need the Federal Reserve to print up the money when the deficit is accumulated.” - Ron Paul

“Taking risks is an inherent part of life; it's only dangerous when you act as though you're not taking a risk.” - Harry Browne

“All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are essentially better than all the other causes in the world and refuse to believe that, if their cause is to prosper at all, it requires precisely the same evil-smelling manure as all other human undertakings have need of.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.” - Albert Camus

“If any of you have ever looked at your FBI file, you discover that intelligence agencies in general are extremely incompetent.” - Noam Chomsky

“What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

“Censorship represents Fear by Big Information.” - Julian Assange

“Which came first - The lies our government tells us, Or the lies we tell ourselves?” - John McAfee

“Money is created when banks lend it into existence. When a bank provides you with a $100,000 mortgage, it creates only the principal, which you spend and which then circulates in the economy. The bank expects you to pay back $200,000 over the next 20 years, but it doesn't create the second $100,000 - the interest. Instead, the bank sends you out into the tough world to battle against everybody else to bring back the second $100,000.” - Bernard Lietaer