If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Ramon Jimenez

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me. -Louis Pasteur

You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty. -Phil Ochs

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind. -William Lloyd Garrison

The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them. -Turkish proverb

Patience is also a form of action. -Auguste Rodin

The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. -John Adams

Once and for all / the idea of glorious victories / won by the glorious army / must be wiped out / Neither side is glorious / On either side they’re just frightened men messing their pants / and they all want the same thing / Not to lie under the earth / but to walk upon it / without crutches. -Peter Weiss

When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 Oct 1869-1948)

“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire