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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

- George Orwell

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

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.

- Buckminster Fuller

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

- W.H. Beveridge

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

- Nelson Mandela

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

- Karl Kraus

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A crisis is a turning point.

- Anne Lindthorst

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

- David Bower

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

- Heda Bejar

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

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie

What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

- Heinz Pagels