If...the machine of government...is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
--Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
--Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
--Henry David Thoreau
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
--Henry David Thoreau
For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky to find one who's hacking at the roots.
--Henry David Thoreau
The future is history.
--Twelve Monkeys
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
--Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)
I know I am among civilized men because they are fighting so savagely.
--Voltaire (1694-1778)
In times when the government imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also the prison.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
--Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
--Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Life is too short to be kissing frogs, much less to be kissing the asses of frogs.
-- G.E. Nordell
Always do right. This will surprise some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain, (1835-1910)
There can be no joy of life without joy of work.
-- Thomas Aquinas
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.
-- D.H. Lawrence
You have to learn to see. If you can appreciate what has quality and what is worthless in art, you will appreciate it in people.
-- Adele Block-Bauer [1881-1925]
A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.
-- Franz Kafka
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political.
--Ignazio Silone, author (1900-1978)
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
--Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
--Charles Darwin, (1809-1882) [The Descent of Man]
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