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  • #1
    Desmond Tutu
    “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
    Desmond Tutu (Foreword)

  • #2
    “The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #3
    Emma Goldman
    “The most violent element in society is ignorance. ”
    Emma Goldman

  • #4
    Carl Sagan
    “You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #5
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #6
    Maximilien Robespierre
    “To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.”
    Maximilien de Robespierre

  • #7
    Socrates
    “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
    Socrates

  • #8
    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    Socrates

  • #9
    Plato
    “Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
    Plato

  • #10
    Voltaire
    “The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
    Voltaire

  • #11
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #12
    Edmund Burke
    “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #13
    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #15
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #16
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    George Orwell

  • #17
    Steven Weinberg
    “The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. ”
    Steven Weinberg

  • #18
    Christopher Hitchens
    “There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it.”
    Christopher Hitchens

  • #19
    Friedrich Hebbel
    “We are as small as our joy (the sum of all ) and as big as our pain (the sum of all )
    Somos tan pequeños como nuestra dicha y tan grandes como nuestro dolor”
    Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  • #20
    Edward Gibbon
    “The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.”
    Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  • #21
    A.R. Bernard
    “The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.”
    A.R. Bernard

  • #22
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #23
    Christopher Hitchens
    “The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me’.”
    Christopher Hitchens

  • #24
    Carl Sagan
    “Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #25
    Richard Dawkins
    “More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
    Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

  • #26
    Richard Dawkins
    “I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
    Richard Dawkins

  • #27
    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

  • #28
    Seneca
    “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #29
    Seneca
    “No man was ever wise by chance”
    Seneca

  • #30
    Edmund Burke
    “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
    Edmund Burke



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