It is time for a warrior society to rise up out of the earth and throw itself in front of the juggernaut of destruction, to be antibodies against the human pox that's ravaging this precious beautiful planet.
-Dave Foreman
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-Albert Einstein
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
-Noam Chomsky
When protests become effective, governments become repressive.
-Tom Hayden
Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival of
life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
-Albert Einstein
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one; it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
-Frederick Douglass
From each according to ability, to each according to need.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
-Albert Einstein
"Give a person a fish, and she eats for a day. Teach her how to fish, and she eats for the rest of her life." I already know how to fish, thank you very much -- the problem is, somebody else owns the pond!!!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men - true nobility is being superior to your former self.
The Power of Truth is Final.
-Mumia Abu-Jamal
The most serious threat to democracy is the notion that it has already been achieved.
There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
-Charles Darwin
All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
-Bertrand Russell
There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change - and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future.
-Noam Chomsky
Indifference is a type of violence.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein
Fighting crime by building more jails is like fighting cancer by building more cemeteries.
-Paul Kelly
I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and justice for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, other-centered men can build up.
=Martin Luther King, Jr.
You must be the change that you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.
-Albert Einstein
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
-Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (Letter to Col. William F. Elkins)
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
-Bertrand Russell
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
-Albert Einstein
I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of great change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.
-Dalai Lama
Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead