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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am so tired of waiting.
Aren’t you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two—
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.”
― Langston Hughes, Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings

“Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.”
― James Baldwin

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
― Howard Zinn

“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”
― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

“To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”
― Immanuel Kant

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
― Carl Sagan

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

~quoted in the New York Times, April 9, 1944”
― Henry A. Wallace

“Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium — indifference.”
― Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution

“As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.”
― John Glenn

“We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.”
― Walt Whitman

“Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”
― Ralph Ellison

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde