Cigarette Smoking Man

"Time is the one thing we cannot manufacture or steal."

"Change is acceptable only when it serves a greater purpose."

"Strength is not what you show, but what you conceal."

"Education teaches compliance before it teaches truth."

"Freedom is the freedom to do as you're told."

"War and peace are merely different expressions of the same goal."

"The most dangerous man is one with nothing left to lose and everything to prove."

"Philosophy without action is indulgence."

"Justice is administered by the strong against the weak."

"Every cigarette is a small rebellion against the inevitable."

"Technology serves those who control its secrets."

"Money is merely crystallized power."

"Perseverance is admirable when it doesn't question authority."

"Hope deferred is the basis of social stability."

"Courage is easily spent on the wrong battles."

"Death comes for everyone; it is only a matter of when and how."

"Art that disturbs the comfortable serves a purpose."

"Science is merely another weapon in the hands of power."

"Beauty can conceal the most terrible truths."

"Peace purchased with silence is no peace at all."

"Nature bends to the will of those with sufficient resources."

"Music has the power to move masses who won't be moved by reason."

"Faith is the anesthetic that numbs pain without healing it."

"Work is the distraction that prevents revolution."

"Dreams are the luxury of those who believe in tomorrow."

"Humor is the last refuge of the powerless."

"Adventure is merely another name for reckless exposure."

"Imagination uncontrolled is a threat to order."

"Health is a state of controlled vulnerability."

"Kindness is the mechanism by which empires are maintained."