Mark Twain:
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”

Plato:
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
“This city is what it is because our citizens are what they are.”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power”