Gadfly Quotes

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.