Ruth Morgart

“Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

“Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.”
― Clarence Darrow, The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow

“You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky