Do not be satisfied with the sole quest for economic advantages. Great affluence, in fact, can also generate great poverty.

--John Paul II

Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them. 

--Philip Dormer Stanhope, statesman and writer (1694-1773)

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

--George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950)

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

--Cato the Elder, (234-149 BCE)

The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the street, and to steal bread.

--Anatole France

The past isn't dead.  It isn't even past.

--William Faulkner

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government. 

--Edward Abbey, (1927-1989)

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

--Michelangelo Buonarroti, (1475-1564)

I love mankind. It's the people I can't stand.

--Charles Schultz

Great souls have wills; feeble souls have wishes.

--Chinese Proverb

Above all, the privately incorporated economy must be made over into a publicly responsible economy. I am aware of the magnitude of this task, but either we take democracy seriously or we do not. This corporate economy, as it is now constituted, is an undemocratic growth within the formal democracy of the United States.

--C. Wright Mills (1958)

I love my country too much to be a nationalist. 

--Albert Camus, (1913-1960)

God must have loved the people in power, for he made them so much like their own image of him.

--Kenneth Patchen, (1911-1972)

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. 

--Amschel Mayer Rothschild, (1743-1812)

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.  It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 

--William Pitt, (1759-1806)

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. 

-William Butler Yeats, (1865-1939)

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. 

--Richard Francis Burton, (1821-1890)

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. 

--Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)

In the faces of men and women I see God. 

--Walt Whitman, (1819-1892)

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. 

--Immanuel Kant, (1724-1804)

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. 

--James Earl Jones, (1931- )