Notable Quotes

“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”
- Stalin “ ”

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”
- Native American proverb

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’”
- Charles Babbage, mathematician and first computer scientist

“There are three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil. Busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.”
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
- Henry Ward Beecher author and clergyman

“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?
Let us rather call it injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for- the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.”
- Georges Bernanos (1888–1948), French novelist, political writer

“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
- Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974), British scientist, author

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants”
- Gen Omar N. Bradley (1893 - 1981)

“The survival of any 21st century democracy will depend upon its commitment to provide for its children a quality education; well rounded in the arts and sciences, and taught in an atmosphere that promotes and encourages the development critical thought”
- Susan Brauer

“The kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, and then mount the stump and make a speech on conservation.”
- Fawn M. Brodie biographer (Richard Nixon)

“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
- Buddha

“There are no warlike peoples – just warlike leaders.”
- Ralph J. Bunche, Nobel Peace laureate

“It’s too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.”
- George Burns

“False democracy shouts every man down to the level of the average.
True democracy cries all men up to the height of their fullest capacity for service and achievement”
- Nicholas Murray Butler, American educator (1862 – 1947)

“We will not learn to live in peace by killing each others children.”
- James "Jimmy" Carter, 39th. President of the United States

“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”
- Shirley Chisholm, Former U.S. Congress person

“One of [my] laws of politics is this, if one candidate's trying to scare you, and the other one is trying to get you to think, if one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.”
- William "Bill" Clinton, 42nd. President of the United States

“He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who dares not, is a fool, and he, who dares not, is a slave.”
- William Drummond, Scottish writer (1585 – 1649)

“Humor is the mask of wisdom.”
- Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss dramatist, writer (1921-1990)

“All that foreign oil controlling American soil.”
- Bob Dylan (Slow Train)

“Peace can not be kept byforce. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
- Einstein

“The day you see the truth and cease to speak is the day you begin to die.”
- Dr. Joycelyn Elder (Former U.S. Surgeon General)

“They that give up essential liberty to obtain safety; neither deserve liberty, nor safety.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“He that’s secure is not safe.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“We must become the change we want to see.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

“Naturally the common people don't want war... But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship... All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same for any country.”
- Herman Göring, Adolf Hitler's second in command

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
- Ernest Hemmingway, American author (1899 – 1961)

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
- Thomas Jefferson

“Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!”
- Mother Jones (1830–1930), U.S. labor organizer

“Laws can embody standards; governments can enforce laws—but the final task is not a task for government. It is a task for each and every one of us. Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted—when we tolerate what we know to be wrong—when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy, or too frightened—when we fail to speak up and speak out—we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.”
- Robert (Bobby) Francis Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney General (1925–68)

“Some men see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and ask, why not?”
- Robert (Bobby) Francis Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney General (1925–68)

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
– Martin Luther King

“It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.”
- Jean François Lyotard, French philosopher

“Credibility is mostly about consistency between words and deeds.”
- James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, authors

“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting! I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.”
- General Douglas Mac Arthur

“The utter destructiveness of war now blots it out as an alternative. If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.”
- General Douglas Mac Arthur

“Be the HOPE that you want the world to see.”
- Nelson Mandella

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
- Margaret Mead, anthropologist

“We are always reading, 'how many men paid over a million dollars income tax'. But we never hear about how many there are that are not eating regular.”
- Will Rogers

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd. President of the United States

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th. President of the United States

“In the history of mankind many republics have risen, and then fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss been so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.”
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th. President of the United States

“The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law.”
- George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”
- Mark Twain

“There is nothing so powerful as the truth, and nothing so strange.”
- Daniel Webster