"Make Injustice Visible"

◊  Mahatma Gandhi

"The truth hurts, but silence kills"

◊  Mark Twain

"Power tends to corrupt.
And absolute power corrupts absolutely"

◊  Lord Acton

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"

◊  John F. Kennedy

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has"

 ◊  Margaret Mead

"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson… hold yourself up as an example and not as a warning"

◊  George Bernard Shaw

"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated"

◊  Mahatma Gandhi

"The purpose of education
Is not to fill a vessel
But to kindle a flame"

◊  Alfred North Whitehead

"Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul"

◊  Mark Twain

"You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong"

◊  Emerson

"The reasonable man
Adapts himself to the world.
The unreasonable man
Persists in trying to adapt
The world to himself.
Therefore, all progress
Depends on the unreasonable man"

◊  George Bernard Shaw

"What is a weed?
A plant whose virtues
Have not been discovered"

◊  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no cure
For birth and death,
Save to enjoy the interval"

◊  George Santayana

"Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,
Their life a mimicry,
Their passions a quotation"

◊  Oscar Wilde

"All men
Should strive to learn before they die
What they are running from,
And to, and why"

◊  James Thurber

"The only good government...
Is a bad one in a hell of a fright"

◊  Joyce Cary

"He was mad cause she was dancing.
She was dancing cause he was mad!"

◊  Vonda

"Courage is grace under pressure"

◊  Ernest Hemingway

"Your public servants (Politicians) serve you right;
Indeed, often they serve you better
than your apathy and indifference deserve"

◊  Adlai Stevenson

"Man’s capacity for evil
Makes democracy necessary
And man’s capacity for good
Makes democracy possible"

◊  Reinhold Niebuhr

"Education…
Makes people easy to lead,
But difficult to drive;
Easy to govern,
But impossible to enslave"

◊  Lord Brougham

"One sees great things from the valley;
Only small things from the peak"

◊  C. K. Chesterton

"The unexamined life
Is not worth living"

◊  Socrates

"Nationalism is an infantile disease.
It is the measles of mankind"

◊  Albert Einstein

"Examinations are formidable
Even to the best prepared.
For the greatest fool may ask more
Than the wisest man can answer"

◊  Charles Caleb Colton

"One fifth of the people
Are against everything
All the time"

◊  Robert Kennedy

"Our true nationality is mankind"

◊  H. G. Wells

"Let the people think they govern
And they will be governed"

◊  William Penn

"There never was a good war,
Or a bad peace"

◊  Benjamin Franklin

"Tyranny is the normal pattern of government.
It is only by intense thought,
By great effort, by burning idealism
And unlimited sacrifice
That freedom has prevailed as a
System of government"

◊  Adlai Stevenson

"Make yourself necessary to someone"

◊  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Marriage is a great institution,
But I’m not ready for an institution yet"

◊  Mae West

"Sometimes…
Even to live is an act of courage"

◊  Seneca

"An expert
Is one who knows more and more
About less and less"

◊  Nicholas Murray Butler

"I recommend you to take care of the minutes;
For the hours will take care of themselves"

◊  Earl of Chesterfield

"Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience"

◊  Compte De Buffon

"Democracy is the theory that the
Common people know what they want,
And deserve to get it good and hard"

◊  H. L. Mencken

"The first casualty of war Is truth"

◊  Phillip Knightley

"Our scientific power
Has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles
And misguided men"

◊  Martin Luther King Jr.

"I must follow them;
I am their leader"

◊  Andrew Bonar Law

"The right to be heard
Does not automatically include
The right to be taken seriously"

◊  Hubert Humphrey

"History repeats itself.
That’s one of the things
Wrong with history"

◊  Clarence Darrow

"No man on earth is truly free.
All are slaves of money or necessity.
Public opinion or fear of prosecution
Forces each one, against his conscience,
To conform"

◊  Euripides

"I do not believe in mathematics.
As far as the laws of mathematics
Refer to reality, they are not certain.
And as far as they are certain,
They do not refer to reality"

◊  Albert Einstein

"Our deeds determine us,
As much as we determine our deeds"

◊  George Eliot

"The successful revolutionary Is a statesman,
The unsuccessful one a criminal"

◊  Erich Fromm

"An idea, like a machine,
Must have power applied to it
Before it can accomplish anything"

◊  B. C. Forbes

"More is lost by indecision
Than wrong decision.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
It will steal you blind"

◊  Cicero

"It is not incumbent upon thee to
Complete the work, but neither art
thou free to desist from it altogether"

◊  Hebraic saying

"Do what you must...
And let fate overtake you"

◊  Charles Darwin

"The willing horse
Is always overworked"

◊  Charles Darwin

"He who works with his hands
Is a laborer.
He who works with his head and hands
Is a craftsman.
He who works with his head, hands and heart
Is an artist"

◊  Charles Darwin

"There’s nothing so fatiguing
As the eternal hanging on
Of an uncompleted task"

◊  William James

"Man’s mind
Stretched to a new idea
Never goes back to its original dimension"

◊  Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm"

◊  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"An error
Doesn’t become a mistake
Until you refuse to correct it"

◊  Unknown

"If we don’t believe in freedom of expression
For people we despise
We don’t believe in it at all"

◊  Noam Chomsky

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

◊  Albert Einstein

"What is now proved was once only imagined"

◊  William Blake

"If you look for the best in people,
It will keep you so busy
You won’t find time to notice the worse"

◊  Unknown

"Grieve not for me
Who am about to start
A new adventure.
Eager I stand and ready to depart,
Me and my reckless, pioneering heart"

◊  Anonymous

"On the sands of hesitation,
Lay the bones of countless millions,
Who at the dawn of victory
Sat down to wait,
And waiting… Died!"

◊  Evangeline Wilkes

"Success is how high you bounce
after you hit bottom"

◊  George S. Patton

You can’t control the length of your life,
But you can control its use.
You can’t control your facial appearance,
But you can control its expression.
You can’t control the weather,
But you can control the moral atmosphere that surrounds you.
You can’t control the distance of your head above the ground,
But you can control the height of the contents in your head.
You can’t control the other fellows annoying faults,
But you can see to it that you do not develop similar faults.
Why worry about the things you cannot control!
Get busy controlling the things that depend on you!

◊  Unknown