You cannot solve problems with the same level of consciousness that created them. - Albert Einstein
Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance. - Albert Einstein
You must be the change you want to create in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. - Mahatma Gandhi
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth. - Mahatma Gandhi
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? - Mahatma Gandhi
Why of course people don't want war. Why should some poor sloly on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England; nor for that manner in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for their lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. - Hermann Goering
All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level that even the the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it. People can be made to perceive paradise as hell, and the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. - Adolf Hitler
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is nether safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right. - Martin Luther King
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself....Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable. - H.L. Mencken
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell the truth. - H.L. Mencken
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and by then there was no one left to speak out for me. German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemueller
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. - Mark Twain
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde