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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle






Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each
person has his or her own potential in terms of
achievement and service. The awareness of that potential
is the discovery of purpose; the fulfillment of that
potential is the discovery of strength.
Norman Cousins






He who knows nothing doubts nothing.
Italian Proverb






On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Nietzsche






I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him
who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is
the victory over self.
Aristotle





Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain






Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful , committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead






Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama







If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
Edward O. Wilson






Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false,
and by rulers as useful.

Seneca (4? B.C. - 65 A.D.)






My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
Mohandas K. Gandhi







The 21st century will be a time in which the traditional methods of drawing sociological distinctions among human beings will crumble.
John H. Stanfield II







The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished.
Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz







The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.
Edward O. Wilson, Consilience







Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology







Religions are all alike, founded on fables and mythologies.
Thomas Jefferson







Love is the most durable force in the world.
Martin Luther King Jr.






Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes







It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
David Harris








Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napolean







Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who teaches my hands to wage war, and my fingers to do battle.
Bible, Psalms 144:1






No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.
Edward O. Wilson






Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
Edward O. Wilson






Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf






We?re all really brothers and sisters if you stop and think about it.
Cristin Joy Alexander, 12 years old





All humans belong to the same species and have the same remote ancestry. This is a conclusion to which all the relevent evidence of comparative anatomy, paleontology, serology, and genetics points.
Ashley Montegu






Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha






Our schoolbooks glorify war and hide its horrors. They inculcate hatred in the veins of children. I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.
Albert Einstein







The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
George Santayana







It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan







Who's more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?
Obi Wan, Star Wars





Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln






We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.
Richard Dawkins







Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it.
Jimmy Swaggart







If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
William Jennings Bryan






We don?t have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand.
James Watt







We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.
James Randi







Question with boldness even the existance of God; because if there be one, He must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfold fear.
Thomas Jefferson







Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes






I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas A. Edison





There can be no healing without truth.
Desmond Tutu, 1998 Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report





If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it people will eventually come to believe it.
Joseph Goebbels






If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein







There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan








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








It?s a hell of thing killin? a man. You take away everything he?s got, and all he?s ever gonna have.
from the film, The Unforgiven






Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
John Dewey
 






Therefore each of you must put off falsehood
and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.

Ephesians 4:25








No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt





What we really are matters more than what people think of us.
Jawaharlal Nehru







We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.
Paul Bourget









There?s a kind of freedom in being completely screwed, because you know things can?t get any worse.
from the film,The Freshman







I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.






Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.






The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson







An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi









War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell









I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei









Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
Pierre Trudeau







Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King Jr.





The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert







Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
Ashley Montague







Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth
and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the Earth.

William Faulkner







In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
Nietzsche







To me, racial barriers do not exist in reality. If I say that 'everyone under the sun is a member of a universal family,' you may think that I am bluffing and being idealistic. But if anyone still believes in racial differences, I think he is too backward and narrow in his perspective. Perhaps he still does not understand man's equality and love.
Bruce Lee







Just because a great many people believe in something, is no guarantee of its truth.
Gandhi







An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo








To act is easy; to think is hard.
Goethe





Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Walter Kerr







A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe








For love of domination we must substitute equality;
for love of victory we must substitute justice;
for brutality we must substitute intelligence;
for competition we must substitute cooperation.
We must learn to think of the human race as one family.
Bertrand Russell







Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell












Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein






In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.
Carl Sagan







Two things are infinite: The Universe and human stupidity - and I'm not sure about the Universe.
Albert Einstein





Life is what happens to you while you're busy makin' other plans...
John Lennon







There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau,Walden







The easiest person to deceive is one s own self.
Edward Bulwer Lytton





Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King Jr.







For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
Bertrand Russell








If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan




To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI








There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin







It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd... Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank








Seek peace, and pursue it.
Bible, Proverbs 34:14







Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.
Billy Joel






If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Gandhi






The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.







Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
Pierre Trudeau







The good man is the friend of all living things.
Gandhi







Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein



A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Gandhi








If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Herman Hesse






"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie






Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.






Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy




Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells







To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes






The only way we can determine the true age of the earth is for God to tell us what it is. And since He has told us, very plainly in the Holy Scriptures that it is several thousand years in age, and no more, that ought to settle all basic questions of terrestrial chronology.
Henry Morris, Institute of Creation Research








The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell









No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman







The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
James Bond, Tomorrow Never Dies







All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw







An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France










Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy







War can only be abolished
by the establishment of a world government.
Bertrand Russell








What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the entire law; all the rest is commentary.
Judaism, Talmud-Shabbat 31a, 200 C.E.








Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Jesus, Matthew 7:12, 30-33 C.E.








What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucious, 500 B.C.E.








When Hitler attacked the Jews,
I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned.
And when Hitler attacked the Catholics,
I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned.
And when Hitler attacked the unions and industrialists,
I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned.
Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church
and there was nobody left to be concerned.
Martin Niemoller








Hurt not others in ways, that you yourself would find hurtful.
Buddhism. Udana-Varga 5:18, 500 B.C.E.








This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain done unto you.
Brahmanism, Mahabharata 5, 1517, 1000 B.C.E.








They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero








Life and hope for the world
are to be found only in the deeds of love.
Bertrand Russell









Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.







All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
Thomas a Kempis







I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein







There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of a horse.
Bible, Ezekiel 23:20







We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
Lee Iacocca







Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russel







The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke







Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
Buddha







Tell me why are we so blind to see that the ones we hurt are you and me?
Coolio,Gangsta's Paradise







Do or do not; there is no try.
Yoda







We must be the change we wish to see.
Gandhi







Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.
Paul Tillich








Generations to come will scarce believe that such
a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood.
Albert Einstein on Gandhi








To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius







The time has come, or is about to come,
when only large-scale civil disobedience,
which should be nonviolent,
can save the populations from the universal death
which their governments are preparing for them.
Bertrand Russell








It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Dan Quayle







It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha








All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble
from them.
Chinese Proverb








You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
John Lennon,Imagine







Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but he resisted with love instead of hate. True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love.
Martin Luther King Jr.







Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.
Paul Krugman







Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
Bertrand Russell







No miracle has ever taken place under conditions which science can accept. Experience shows, without exception, that miracles occur only in times and in countries in which miracles are believed in, and in the presence of persons who are disposed to believe them.
Ernest Renan







At the end of your life you won?t regret not scoring one more point or closing one more deal, you will regret time not spent with a wife, a husband, a child, or a friend.
Sarah


 
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