Yet Even More of my Favourite Quotes
Therefore, O citizens, I bid ye bow in awe to this command, Let no man live, Uncurbed by law nor curbed by tyranny. ~~ Aeschylus
A man who is convinced of the
truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant.. ~~ Albert
Einstein
In the struggle of Good against Evil, it's always the people who get
killed. ~~ Eduardo Galeano
Whenever you find yourself on
the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~~ Mark
Twain
There is no flag large enough
to cover the shame of killing innocent people. ~~ Howard
Zinn
I'm for truth, no
matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or
against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for
whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. ~~ Malcolm
X
The roots of
violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge
without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity,
worship without sacrifice, politics without principles. ~~ Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi
When machines and
computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more
important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and
militarism are incapable of being conquered. ~~ Martin
Luther King, Jr.
The world is a
dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those
who look on and do nothing. ~~ Albert Einstein
Whatever fosters the
growth of civilization works at the same time against war. ~~ Sigmund
Freud
We must join with
the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most
sacred responsibility. ~~ Paul Robeson
How wonderful it is
that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the
world. ~~ Anne Frank
Justice is
conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole
of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own
conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.î ~~ Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
Safeguarding the rights of
others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. ~~ Kahlil
Gibran
America will never be
destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will
be because we destroyed ourselves. ~~ Abraham Lincoln
Fascism is capitalism plus
murder. ~~ Upton Sinclair
Go where you may, search where
you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms ~~ of the Old
World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when
you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday
practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting
barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. ~~ Frederick
Douglass
If I sit silently, I have
sinned. ~~ Mohammad Mossadegh
One must always try to be as
radical as reality itself. ~~ Vladimir Lenin
They must find it difficult,
those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as
authority. ~~ Gerald Massey
I don't want them to believe
me, I just want them to think. ~~ Marshall McLuhan
Perhaps it is a universal
truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged against
provisions against danger, real or pretended from abroad. ~~ James
Madison
If you can't eliminate
injustice, at least tell everyone about it. ~~ Ali Shariati
Disobedience is the true
foundation of liberty. ~~ Henry David Thoreau
Intelligent discontent is the
mainspring of civilization. ~~ Eugene V. Debs
The civility of no race can be
perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine of the oldest
and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot
injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all members. ~~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
In times of universal deceit,
telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~~ George
Orwell
We have a government of
corporations, for corporations, by corporations. ~~ Pete
Seeger
I'm witnessing this chronic,
insidious genocide and I'm really scared, and questioning my
fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature. This has to stop. I
think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our
lives to making this stop. ~~ Rachel Corrie
Fear can only prevail when
victims are ignorant of the facts. ~~ Thomas Jefferson
To protest in the name of
morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints at
active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simply an
all~~pervasive system. ~~ Simone de Beauvoir
All truth passes through three
stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third,
it is accepted as being self~~evident. ~~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Freedom means the supremacy of
human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain
those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To
that high concept there can be no end save victory. ~~ Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
Truth is so obscure in these
times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we
cannot know it. ~~ Blaise Pascal
No cause is left but the most
ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our
history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of
freedom versus tyranny. ~~ Hannah Arendt
A state too expensive in
itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay;
its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the
principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into
despotism. ~~ Simon BolĖvar
Those who can make you believe
absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~~ Voltaire
People who shut their eyes to
reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on
remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead
turns himself into a monster. ~~ James Baldwin
The struggle of people against
power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. ~~ Milan
Kundera
All those who seek to destroy
the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the
surest and shortest means to accomplish it. ~~ Alexis de
Tocqueville
Truth uncompromisingly told
will always have its ragged edges; hence the conclusion of such a
narration is apt to be less finished than an architectural finial. ~~ Herman
Melville
Believing in progress does not
mean believing that any progress has yet been made. ~~ Franz
Kafka
Few of us can easily surrender
our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the
state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is
intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied. ~~ Arthur
Miller
Everyone gives the title of
barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country. ~~ Michel
de Montaigne
Fascism itself can only be
turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to
social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation. ~~ Arundhati
Roy
Dissent is what rescues
democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors. ~~ Lewis
H. Lapham
We are healthy only to the
extent that our ideas are humane. ~~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The truth will set you free,
but first it will piss you off. ~~ Gloria Steinem
More than any other time in
history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and
utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have
the wisdom to choose correctly. ~~ Woody Allen
My loathings are simple:
stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. ~~
Vladimir Nabokov
Socialism never took root in
America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited
proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. ~~ John
Steinbeck
The basic principle, rarely
violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and
privilege does not exist. ~~ Noam Chomsky
Under democracy one party
always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other
party is unfit to rule ~~ and both commonly succeed, and are right. ~~ H.L.
Mencken
The propagandist's purpose is
to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are
human. ~~ Aldous Huxley
Many people would sooner die
than think. In fact they do. ~~ Bertrand Russell
If you are neutral in
situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. ~~ Desmond
Tutu
Every empire...tells itself
and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is
not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate. ~~ Edward
Said
The darkest places in hell are
reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral
crisis. ~~ Dante Alighieri
When fascism comes to this
country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross. ~~ Sinclair
Lewis
War is a racket. It always has
been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the
most vicious. ~~ Smedley Butler
Hard are the ways of truth,
and rough to walk. ~~ John Milton
A new scientific truth does
not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light,
but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation
grows up that is familiar with it. ~~ Max Planck
Those who would give up
essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve
neither liberty nor safety. ~~ Benjamin Franklin
With the establishment of a
relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in
history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be
the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How
could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective
inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be
no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their
subjugation. ~~ Paulo Freire
The death of democracy is not
likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction
from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. ~~ Robert
M. Hutchins
I see how peoples are set
against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly,
obediently, innocently slay one another. I see that the keenest brains
of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and
enduring. ~~ Erich Maria Remarque
The evil that is in the world
almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much
harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. ~~ Albert
Camus
He that would make his own
liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he
violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to
himself. ~~ Thomas Paine
We must not confuse dissent
with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof
and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We
will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear
into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our
doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men. ~~ Edward
R. Murrow
If voting changed anything,
they'd make it illegal. ~~ Emma Goldman
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