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Do not fear the unknown. Do not fear ignorance.
Do not fear the truth.
Fear only the warm
embrace of passive stupidity.
Guy P. Harrison By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution. Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near The laws that keep us safe, these same laws comdemn us to boredom. Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
Nietzsche
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Gandhi
There's a kind of freedom in being completely screwed, because you know things can't get any worse.
from the film, The Freshman
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood
and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.
Ephesians 4:25
We work jobs we hate so that we can buy shit that we do not need.
Tyler Durden, Fight Club
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What we really are matters more than what people think of us. Jawaharlal Nehru
We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.
Paul Bourget
Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
Pierre Trudeau
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
Ashley Montague
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth
and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the Earth.
William Faulkner
To me, racial barriers do not exist in reality. If I say that 'everyone under the sun is a member of a universal family,' you may think that I am bluffing and being idealistic. But if anyone still believes in racial differences, I think he is too backward and narrow in his perspective. Perhaps he still does not understand man's equality and love.
Bruce Lee
Just because a great many people believe in something, is no guarantee of its truth.
Gandhi
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo
To act is easy; to think is hard.
Goethe
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Walter Kerr
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe
For love of domination we must substitute equality;
for love of victory we must substitute justice;
for brutality we must substitute intelligence;
for competition we must substitute cooperation.
We must learn to think of the human race as one family.
Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.
Carl Sagan
Two things are infinite: The Universe and human stupidity - and I'm not sure about the Universe.
Albert Einstein
Life is what happens to you while you're busy makin' other plans...
John Lennon
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The easiest person to deceive is one s own self.
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King Jr.
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
Bertrand Russell
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
To get Peace you must work for Justice.
John Paul VI
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd... Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
Seek peace, and pursue it.
Bible, Proverbs 34:14
Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.
Billy Joel
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Gandhi
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.
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
Pierre Trudeau
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Gandhi
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Herman Hesse
"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The only way we can determine the true age of the earth is for God to tell us what it is. And since He has told us, very plainly in the Holy Scriptures that it is several thousand years in age, and no more, that ought to settle all basic questions of terrestrial chronology.
Henry Morris, Institute of Creation Research
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
James Bond, Tomorrow Never Dies
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
War can only be abolished
by the establishment of a world government.
Bertrand Russell
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the entire law; all the rest is commentary.
Judaism, Talmud-Shabbat 31a, 200 C.E.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Jesus, Matthew 7:12, 30-33 C.E.
What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucious, 500 B.C.E.
When Hitler attacked the Jews,
I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned.
And when Hitler attacked the Catholics,
I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned.
And when Hitler attacked the unions and industrialists,
I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned.
Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church
and there was nobody left to be concerned.
Martin Niemoller
Hurt not others in ways, that you yourself would find hurtful.
Buddhism. Udana-Varga 5:18, 500 B.C.E.
This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain done unto you.
Brahmanism, Mahabharata 5, 1517, 1000 B.C.E.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero
Life and hope for the world
are to be found only in the deeds of love.
Bertrand Russell
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
Thomas a Kempis
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
Lee Iacocca
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russel
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
Buddha
Tell me why are we so blind to see that the ones we hurt are you and me?
Coolio,Gangsta's Paradise
Do or do not; there is no try.
Yoda
We must be the change we wish to see.
Gandhi
Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.
Paul Tillich
Generations to come will scarce believe that such
a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood.
Albert Einstein on Gandhi
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
The time has come, or is about to come,
when only large-scale civil disobedience,
which should be nonviolent,
can save the populations from the universal death
which their governments are preparing for them.
Bertrand Russell
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Dan Quayle
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha
All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble
from them.
Chinese Proverb
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
John Lennon,Imagine
Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but he resisted with love instead of hate. True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.
Paul Krugman
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
Bertrand Russell
No miracle has ever taken place under conditions which science can accept. Experience shows, without exception, that miracles occur only in times and in countries in which miracles are believed in, and in the presence of persons who are disposed to believe them.
Ernest Renan
At the end of your life you won't regret not scoring one more point or closing one more deal, you will regret time not spent with a wife, a husband, a child, or a friend.
Sarah
Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza
A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
Whether they live on the plains or in the valleys, whether they live in slums or isolated villages, whether they speak Hindi, Swahili, or Uzbek, people have one thing in common: They do not want charity. They want a chance. They do not want solutions imposed from without. They want the opportunity to build from within. They do not want my culture or yours. They want their own. They want a future enriched by the inheritance of their past.
James D. Wolfensohn, World Bank President
You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them.
Pat Robertson
A cult is any group that has a form of godliness, but does not recognize Jesus Christ as the unique son of God.... One test of a cult is that it often does not strictly teach that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God who Himself is God manifested in the flesh.... Christian-oriented cults include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), the Worldwide Church of God, Christian Science, Unity, Unitarianism, The Way International, Rosicrucian Society of America, Bahai, Hare Krishna, Scientology, the Unification Church, and the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Pat Robertson
Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.
Pat Buchanan
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo
Circling the Earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty, not destory it!
Yuri Gagarin, first human in space
If we are to reach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle, we won't have to pass fruitless, idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.
Gandhi
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud,
and one the stars.
Frederick Langbridge
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Buddha
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each
person has his or her own potential in terms of
achievement and service. The awareness of that potential
is the discovery of purpose; the fulfillment of that
potential is the discovery of strength.
Norman Cousins
He who knows nothing doubts nothing.
Italian Proverb
The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.
Michael Shermer
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Nietzsche
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him
who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is
the victory over self.
Aristotle
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Tyler Durden, Fight Club
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
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
Edward O. Wilson
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false,
and by rulers as useful.
Seneca (4? B.C. - 65 A.D.)
What we do in life echoes in eternity.
Maximus, Galdiator
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells
My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
The 21st century will be a time in which the traditional methods of drawing sociological distinctions among human beings will crumble.
John H. Stanfield II
The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished.
Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz
The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.
Edward O. Wilson, Consilience
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology
Religions are all alike, founded on fables and mythologies.
Thomas Jefferson
Love is the most durable force in the world.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes
One man's life touches so many others, when he's not there it leaves an awfully big hole.
Clarence, It's a Wonderful Life
It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
David Harris
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napolean
Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who teaches my hands to wage war, and my fingers to do battle.
Bible, Psalms 144:1
No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.
Edward O. Wilson
Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
Edward O. Wilson
Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
We're all really brothers and sisters if you stop and think about it.
Cristin Joy Alexander, 12 years old
All humans belong to the same species and have the same remote ancestry. This is a conclusion to which all the relevent evidence of comparative anatomy, paleontology, serology, and genetics points.
Ashley Montegu
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha
Our schoolbooks glorify war and hide its horrors. They inculcate hatred in the veins of children. I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.
Albert Einstein
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
George Santayana
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
Who's more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?
Obi Wan, Star Wars
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.
Richard Dawkins
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it.
Jimmy Swaggart
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
William Jennings Bryan
We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand.
James Watt
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx
We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.
James Randi
Question with boldness even the existance of God; because if there be one, He must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfold fear.
Thomas Jefferson
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas A. Edison
There can be no healing without truth.
Desmond Tutu, 1998 Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it people will eventually come to believe it.
Joseph Goebbels
Every man dies, not every man really lives.
William Wallace, Braveheart
The earth is but one country, and mankind its citzens.
Bahu'u llah
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony
It's a hell of thing killin' a man. You take away everything he's got, and all he's ever gonna have.
from the film, The Unforgiven
Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
John Dewey
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
General George S. Patton, Patton
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