"He who knows only his own generation remains always a child."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"laws are silent in times of war"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"No dainty dolce affettuoso I."
— Walt Whitman

"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

"The only thing I know is that I know nothing"
— Socrates

"Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble."
— Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek)

"When we are not sure, we are alive."
— Graham Greene

"The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons. "
— Jean Renoir

"Empathy is the most radical of human emotions."
— Gloria Steinem

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
— Sinclair Lewis

"If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.""
— John F. Kennedy

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
— Ambrose Bierce

"In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss."
— John Irving (Until I Find You)

"The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions)

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
— André Gide

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."
— Thomas Paine

"Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun."
— Kurt Vonnegut (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater)

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
— Denis Diderot