"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded."
- Leo Tolstoy

"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

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction."
- Blaise Pascal

"It is impossible to chain man merely by enslaving his body; the mind also must be held, to accomplish this fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must: fear life, fear death, fear god, fear the devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny."
- Manly Palmer Hall

"Whenever there is great property, there is great inequality. For one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred of the poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many..."
- Adam Smith

"Make injustice visible."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top."
- Timothy Leary

"God is a comic, playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire

"Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
- William Blake

"A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand."
- Dorothy L. Sayers

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself."
- Mark Twain

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
- Mark Twain

"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"On the whole though, our infantilized citizenry is having too much fun to question itself. In the drive for a harder hard-on, faster everything, and round the clock stimulation, we have created an artificial and frivolous citizenry, one that is incapable of serious thought or deeper humor -- a nation of children completely happy to stay that way. America's childish material gratification is so grotesquely satisfying that it smothers the most basic sort of reason, much less philosophical thinking. Fuck it all. Nietzsche and Rimbaud are too goddamned hard to read anyway."
- Joe Bageant

“To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship”
- Wendell Phillips

“Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.”
- Wendell Phillips

“Christianity is a battle, not a dream”
- Wendell Phillips

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
-Lord Acton

"The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda."
- Martin Buber

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
- Thomas Jefferson

"There is nothing more frightful, than ignorance in action."
- Johann von Goethe

"Fascism is capitalism with murder."
- Upton Sinclair

"It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
-Voltaire