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-- Henry Home
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
--Edward Abbey
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw
... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
-- Voltarine de Cleyre
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
-- Abbie Hoffman
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-- John F. Kennedy
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.
--Frederick Douglass
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
-- Montesquieu
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
-- Potter Stewart
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
-- Washington Irving
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
-- Leo Tolstoi
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the face of social change.
-- Laurence Joseph McGinley
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
-- Thomas Fuller
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
-- James Russell Lowell
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.
-- Tryon Edwards
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
-- Lord Acton
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
-- Thomas Paine
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
-- Montesquieu
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
-- William Lloyd George
We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
-- Benjamin Franklin
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
-- Emma Goldman
Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.
-- Stephen Vincent Benét
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
-- Thomas Jefferson
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
-- Barry M. Goldwater
A fanatic is a man who does what he thinks the Lord would do if only He knew the facts of the case.
-- Finley Peter Dunne
It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep ... My prison--house ... is but the intensified replica of the world beyond, the larger prison locked with the levers of Greed, guarded by the spawn of Hunger.
-- Alexander Berkman
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
-- Nathaniel Howe
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
-- Thomas Paine
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
-- Samuel Butler
At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being.
-- Friedrich Otto Hertz
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
-- James A. Garfield
A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
-- Thomas Jefferson
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
-- Charles F. Kettering
To see the earth as we now see it, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night--brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
-- Archibald MacLeish
A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
-- Samuel Grafton
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
-- William Lloyd George
It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.
-- Emma Goldman
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
-- Charles A. Beard
It is not the lofty sails but the unseen wind that moves the ship.
--W. McNeile Dixon
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
-- James Michener