A handful of quotes by some of the
greatest (and worst) minds of all time:

"Societies can be judged by how they treat their poor,
sick, elderly, and disappeared." -- Hubert Humphrey

“Be the change you want.”-- Mahatma Ghandi

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved
through understanding.” -- Albert Einstein

“There are no boundaries one must adhere to
when preserving one’s liberty.” -- Aaron Russo

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President . . .
is not only unpatriotic and servile but it is morally treasonable to
the American public.” -- Theodore Roosevelt

“Savage is the man, be it in the African bush or under the
American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and
intent of God completely and exactly.”-- H.L. Mencken

“Trade without economic justice is theft.” -- Dennis Kucinich

"There is no God higher than truth.” – Mahatma Ghandi

“Think for yourself. And question authority.” – Dr. Timothy Leary

“Those who inhibit peaceful revolution,
make violent revolution inevitable.”– J.F.K.

“We’re not going to have real security
until we invest in our children.” – Paul Wellstone

“The problems we face will not be solved
by the minds that created them.” – Albert Camus

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes
decide everything.” – Joseph Stalin.

“It’s dangerous to be right when the
government is wrong.” – Voltaire

“When a man chooses the lesser of two evils,
he still chooses evil.” – Ralph Nader

“What we think, we become.” – Buddha

“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped
in the flag and carrying a cross.” – Sinclair Lewis

“I like your Christ. I do not always like your Christians.
They can be so unlike your Christ.” – Mahatma Ghandi

“Workingmen voting for Republicans are like
chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.” – Chris Rock

“Knowledge speaks.
Wisdom listens.” – Jimi Hendrix

“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have
new leaders become cruel.” – Che Guevara

“He who is willing to sacrifice liberty for security
deserves neither.” – Benjamin Franklin

“In order to understand terrorism of the weak against the powerful, one must first understand, and accept, terrorism of the powerful against the weak.” – Noam Chomsky

“The most violent element in a society
is ignorance.” – Emma Goldman

“You cannot simultaneously prevent
and prepare for war.” – Albert Einstein

“What good fortune for governments
that their peoples don’t think.” – Adolph Hitler

"Those who don't remember the past
are condemned to relive it." -- George Santayana

"Think with your own head,
not your guts." -- Unknown

"There is no expedient to which a man will not resort
to avoid the real labor of thinking." -- Sir Joshua Reynolds

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those
who own one." -- A. J. Liebling

"Journalists seperate the wheat from the chaff . . .
and then print the chaff." -- Adalai Stevenson

"If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free,
it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Germany taught me that an uncritical view of the national past generates an equally subserbvient acceptance of the present."
-- Hans Schmitt (on growing up in Nazi Germany)

"A simple person believes every word he hears;
a clever one understands the need for proof." -- Proverbs 14:15

“Religion is what keeps the poor from
murdering the rich.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

"Dissent is the highest form
of patriotism" -- Thomas Jefferson

 

 

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