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  • #1
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #3
    Charles de Gaulle
    “China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. ”
    Charles de Gaulle

  • #4
    John Wayne
    “I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were
    selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”
    John Wayne

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    “I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.”
    Marion Barry

  • #8
    Will Rogers
    “Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”
    Will Rogers

  • #9
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #10
    George Orwell
    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    George Orwell

  • #11
    Thomas Jefferson
    “War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #12
    Bertrand Russell
    “It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #13
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #14
    H.G. Wells
    “A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.”
    H.G. Wells

  • #15
    H.L. Mencken
    “Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
    H. L. Mencken, Minority Report

  • #16
    Paulo Freire
    “The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.”
    Paulo Freire

  • #17
    Mignon McLaughlin
    “Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
    Mignon McLaughlin

  • #18
    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    Robert Ingersoll

  • #19
    Blaise Pascal
    “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
    Blaise Pascal, Pensées

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
    Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Brandon Sanderson
    “I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart

  • #23
    Paulo Freire
    “Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
    Paulo Freire

  • #24
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
    Albert Camus

  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”
    Albert Einstein



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