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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

- Bertrand Russell

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

- Benjamin Franklin

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

- African Proverb

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

- Martin Luther

No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

- Abraham Lincoln

Empathy is the biggest negotiation tool. I must try to understand where the other person's coming from to make points for my side.

- Lee Ducat

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

- Septima Poinsette Clark