Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
-Albert Einstein, (1879-1955)
He that is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
--Thomas Paine, (1737-1809)
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
--William Ellery Channing, clergyman, reformer (1810-1884)
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
--Lord Salisbury, British prime minister (1830-1903)
The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.
--Albert Einstein
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
--Anonymous
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
--James Baldwin
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
--J. William Fulbright, US Senator (1905-1995)
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
--Socrates, (469?-399 BCE)
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
--Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941)
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.
--Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman and reformer (1829-1906)
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
--Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
--Thomas Szasz, (1920- )
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
--John Ruskin, (1819-1900)
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
--Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865)
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
-Leo Tolstoy, (1828-1910)
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
--Upton Sinclair
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
-Susan B Anthony, (1820-1906)
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
--Hanlon's Razor
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
--Carl Sagan, (1934-1996)
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
--George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
--Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
--William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)
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