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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