Quotations that I like.
Sex and Race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organising human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen, or those earned. We are really talking about Humanism.
Gloria Steinem
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John W. Gardner
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
Malcolm X
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T. S. Eliot
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
Omar N. Bradley
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
Robert E. Lee
I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We'd find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.
Ronald Reagan
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King Jr.
All war is based on deception.
"The Art of War," by Sun Tzu, circa 500 BC
...In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
James Reston
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.
Colombian diplomat Gustavo de Greiff
Each time a (person) stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others... he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. Kennedy
It is better do die on your feet than live a lifetime on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
Give to every other human being every right you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Silence gives consent.
Canon Law
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.
Thomas Paine
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs
I don't understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians... it's a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it's not who you love... a man, a woman, what have you... it's the fact THAT you love. That is all that truly matters.
Al Pacino
If given the opportunity to live your life over and over again ad infinitum, forced to go through all of the pain and the grief of existence, would you be overcome with despair? Or would you fall to your knees in gratitude?
Frithjof Bergmann
"A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You're free at last."
Charlie Daniels
Gloria Steinem
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John W. Gardner
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
Malcolm X
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T. S. Eliot
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
Omar N. Bradley
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
Robert E. Lee
I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We'd find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.
Ronald Reagan
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King Jr.
All war is based on deception.
"The Art of War," by Sun Tzu, circa 500 BC
...In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
James Reston
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.
Colombian diplomat Gustavo de Greiff
Each time a (person) stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others... he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. Kennedy
It is better do die on your feet than live a lifetime on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
Give to every other human being every right you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Silence gives consent.
Canon Law
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.
Thomas Paine
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs
I don't understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians... it's a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it's not who you love... a man, a woman, what have you... it's the fact THAT you love. That is all that truly matters.
Al Pacino
If given the opportunity to live your life over and over again ad infinitum, forced to go through all of the pain and the grief of existence, would you be overcome with despair? Or would you fall to your knees in gratitude?
Frithjof Bergmann
"A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You're free at last."
Charlie Daniels