"Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women."
— Ghandi

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come."
— William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?"
— Joseph Stalin

"The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
— George Orwell

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
— Joseph Stalin

"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened."
— Mark Twain

"The mind is its own place, and in itself
can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
— Che Guevara

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
— Mark Twain

"Grace was in all her steps,
heaven in her eye,
in every gesture dignity and love.

Paradise Lost"
— John Milton

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."
— M. Scott Peck

"We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.""
— M. Scott Peck

""It's bettet to burn out than to fade away""
— Neil Young

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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— Sun Tzu

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
— George Orwell

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
— George Orwell

"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything."
— Joseph Stalin

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

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

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

"Why am I fighting to live,
If I am just living to fight
Why am I trying to see.
When there aint nothing in sight
Why am I trying to give,
When no one gives me a try
Why am I dying to live,
If I am just living to die?"
— Tupac Shakur

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice,—is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
— John Stuart Mill (Dissertations and Discussions Political, Philosophical, and Historical: Volume 2)