The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.
– Mohandas Gandhi
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The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.
– Adolf Hitler (German chancellor, leader of the Nazi party, 1889-1945)
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I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe. I believe what I believe is right.
– George W. Bush: 43rd President of the United States
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We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots, and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering, and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing. With just a little witty skepticism we can kill a good deal of the future in a young person. Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet.
– Hermann Hesse, German poet and novelist
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…most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self Reliance – 1841 – From ‘Essays”, First series
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One of the world’s greatest problems is the impossibilty of any person searching for the truth on any subject when they believe they already have it.
– Dave Wilbur
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It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
– Henry Kissinger
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