"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide."
-John Adams (1814)
"The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math,
that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe."
-Kurt Vonnegut (last paragraph of Hocus Pocus)
"It' so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate; it takes strength to be gentle and kind."
-Morrissey (from "I Know It's Over" by The Smiths)
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail")
"Freedom is never voluntarily given up by the oppressor."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail")
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves,
even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
-Ayn Rand (from The Fountainhead)
"It's hard to love, there's so much to hate; hanging on to hope when there is
no hope to speak of."
-George Micheal (from "Praying for Time")
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans>"
-John Lennon (from "Beautiful Boy")
"To know anything about oneself one must know all about others."
-Oscar Wilde (from The Critic as Artist)
"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out,
the conservative adopts them."
-Mark Twain (from Notebooks)
"It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion
and tolerance."
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama (from Ocean of Wisdom)
"Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it."
-Albert Einstein (from Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist)
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-Albert Einstein (from Mathematics, Queen and Servant of the Sciences)
"Our object in the construction of the State is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."
-Plato (from The Republic)
"Democracy passes into despotism."
-Plato (from The Republic)
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."
-Thomas Jefferson (from his 1801 Inaugural Address)
"I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least';
and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this,
which I also believe, 'That government is best which governs not at all."
-Henry David Thoreau (from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience)
"The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of
Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine."
-Henry David Thoreau (from Walden, or, Life in the Woods)
"We'll make great pets."
-Perry Farrell (from "Pets" by Porno for Pyros)