Quotes

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing

Socrates

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets

Voltaire

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause

Eric Hoffer

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Tom Lehrer

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

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed....I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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