And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul- don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.

-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[H/T Nicole DeMille]

 Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

-Dean Koontz, Brother Odd