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We don't need no education!
We don't need no thought control!
No dark sarcasm in the classroom —
Teacher leave them kids alone!

— Roger Waters

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In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)

All that's to come, and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

"Well, anyway, I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the War."

We've got the recording side together and not the playing side.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

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