Es gibt im Leben Augenblicke, da die Frage, ob man anders denken kann, als man denkt, und anders wahrnehmen kann, als man sieht, […] unentbehrlich ist.

—Michel Foucault

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual
citizens give it a ‘temporary license to exist’ – in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government — it doesn’t own you.

—Frank Zappa