Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of
genius, and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
~ Albert Einstein

Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.
~ Michel de Montaigne

Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the
world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is
that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand
thieves are running the country. That's our problem.
~ Howard Zinn

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scale.
~ Aesop

They made a wasteland and called it peace.
~ Tacitus

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can’t afford an air force.
~ William Blum

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international
dissension will be ... surer of the noose than a private homicide.
~ H. G. Wells

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and
needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be
restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
~ Albert Einstein

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through
disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
~ Oscar Wilde

When you philosophically oppose an entire power elite, you cannot help but sound like a
conspiracy theorist. Social power is by nature a conspiracy.
~ Tom N

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist (pirate?). You do it with a whole fleet
and are called an emperor.
~ St. Augustine

Insanity in individuals is something rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
~ Nietzsche

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
~ Thomas Szasz

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-
defense against a homicidal maniac.
~ George Orwell

You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.
~ [Usenet]

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
~ Henry David Thoreau

One man's magic is another man's engineering. Supernatural is a null word.
~ Robert Heinlein

Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.
~ Lucy Parsons

The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.
~ Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe
that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their
blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
~ Ivan Illich

I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
~ Mohandas Gandhi

Stopping terrorism is simple. Just quit screwing around with other people's countries and the
terrorists will go home. But the government of the United States wants to go on screwing around
with other people's countries, refuses to stop, indeed views it as Manifest Destiny for the
United States Government to persist in screwing around with other people's countries, and views the
inconvenience, increased tax burden, loss of civil liberties, and even deaths among the American
people as just another cost of doing business.
~ Michael Rivero

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is
on.
~ Joseph Heller

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

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the
most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
~ John Maynard Keynes

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

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd
every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
~ Orson Scott Card

I'm ineffably tired of pro-war ideologues moaning about how the anti-war folk
are just 'complaining' without 'offering solutions' to global dilemmas. Peace
doesn't need a freekin moral, ethical, economical, or political qualification; war
does. Peace doesn't ravage, plunder, rape, or kill; war does. Peace does not need
justification, war does.
~ unknown

History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are
brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
~ Ambrose Bierce

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
~ Aleister Crowley

Men who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
~ Voltaire

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own
side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
~ George Orwell

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in a continuous
stampede of patriotic fervor, with the cry of grave national emergency. Always
there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that
was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
~ General Douglas MacArthur

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
~ J. Krishnamurthi

If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we
would believe what they believe.
~CHURCH SIGN IN IRELAND

My humble friend, we know not how to live this life which is so short yet seek
one that never ends.
~ Anatole France

It makes no difference as to the name of the God, since love is the real God of
all in the world.
~ Apache

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Statistically one hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
~ Wayne Gretsky

God favors no group. Only religions do that.
~ Bumper Sticker

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
~ Virginia Woolf

The fascist state is the corporate state.
~ Benito Mussolini

Everyone likes to say Hitler did this and Hitler did that. But the truth is Hitler
did very little. He was a world class asshole, but the evil actually done, from the
death camps to World War Two, was all done by citizens who were afraid to
question if what they were told by their government was the truth or not, and
who because they did not want to admit to themselves that they were afraid to
question the government, refused to see the truth behind the Reichstag Fire,
refused to see the invasion by Poland was a staged fake, and followed Hitler
into national disaster.
~ Michael Rivero

I ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong ...
No Vietcong ever called me nigger.
~ Muhammad Ali, stripped of boxing title, convicted of a felony for refusing to
serve during the Vietnam War

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader
that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a
double murderer, you are a suicide, too.
~ Katherine Anne Porter

I spent thirty-three years in the marines, most of my time being a high-class
muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a
racketeer for capitalism.
~ General Smedley Butler, Marine

Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of
vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is
not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.
~ Dalton Trumbo

Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be
displaced, tortured, killed or disappeared, at the hands of governments or armed
political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame.
~ Amnesty International, in its annual report on U.S. Military aid and human
rights, 1996

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their
condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
~ Malcolm X

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's
life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow