Friendly, honest, open-minded people.
Here are some quotes that I find particularly interesting:
"I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death, or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies."
-Albert Einstein
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid."
-Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
-Kong Fuzi
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished, unless they kill in large numbers, and to the sound of trumpets."
-François-Marie Arouet
"The most hopeful people in the world are the young and the drunk. The first because they have little experience of failure, and the second because they have succeeded in drowning theirs."
-Thomas Aquinas
"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive."
-Blaise Pascal
"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice."
-Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
"We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?"
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance."
-Siddhartha Gautama
"Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance."
-Henry Louis Mencken
"It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them."
-Samuel Johnson
"I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled."
-Avram Noam Chomsky
"One should not spoil what is present by longing for what is absent, but rather realize that the things we have now were among those we might have hoped for."
-Epicurus
"Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty."
-David Hume
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"When the rich make war, it's the poor that die."
-Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
-Henry David Thoreau
"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Well done is better than well said."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead."
-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"War does not determine who is right — only who is left."
-Bertrand Arthur William Russell
"I don't want to convert people to Buddhism — all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good."
-Llhamo Döndrub
"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."
-Jacques Delille