Revolution Quotations

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (5)

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives ~William James http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-44)

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-18)

Every generation needs a new revolution. ~Thomas Jefferson http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (43)

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leadersand millions have been killed because of this obedienceOur problem is that people are obedient allover 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) the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-363)

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. ~John Lennon http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-84)

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. ~Russell Brand http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (17)

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. ~Marianne Williamson http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-58)

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself ~ educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society. ~Doris Lessing http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-842)

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He as been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. ~Albert Einstein http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-50)

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. ~Henry David Thoreau http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (3)

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ~John F. Kennedy http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (24)

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. ~Oscar Wilde http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (6)

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else. ~H.L. Mencken http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-561)

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (12)

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. ~Henry Miller http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-61)

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx (3)

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-52)

What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems, flags waving and rhetoric blowing--permeated the educational systems of all countries, including our own. I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, or napalm on Vietnam, or wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our time, are always wars against children, indeed our children. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-511)

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire. ~Kurt Tucholsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-18)

Education is imposed ignorance. ~Noam Chomsky Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. ~Mao Tse-Tung http://bryt.me/bx (10)

The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority. It is a country so powerful, so big, so pleasing to so many of its citizens that it can afford to give freedom of dissent to the small number who are not pleased. There is no system of control with more openings, apertures, leeways, flexibilities, rewards for the chosen, winning tickets in lotteries. There is none that disperses its controls more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media--none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-724)

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution. ~Abraham Lincoln http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-46)

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy http://bryt.me/bx (12)

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-5)

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (22)

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-105)

Something is WRONG! Wrong with the government in which we live, wrong with the leaders that lead us, wrong with us, and the way we respond, to our enemy and each other. This nation is not about poor people! Whether they're black, brown, red, yellow or white. This nation is about RICH people, and to hell with the weak, the poor, they must serve! ~Louis Farrakhan http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-223)

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx (15)

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (24)

Go back to the wisdom of the Elders. Listen to the earth. Listen to the trees, they cry, they speak. But the ultimate natural law has no mercy. You will just deal with it as it will deal with you. So the best thing to do is stay on the good side, learn, stay with it. Be brave, be courageous. Be who you are. Be your own leader. You don't need somebody telling you what to do. You think for yourself. Otherwise how are we going to gain if we don't have this great wealth of intelligence? Challenge them every time. Every generation has its heroes, every generation has its leaders, and every generation has its responsibility and this is a big one now! ~Oren Lyons http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-524)

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (23)

The war against terrorism is terrorism. ~ Woody Harrelson http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (44)

The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny. ~Hugo Black http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-37)

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. ~Daisaku Ikeda http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-43)

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-99)

The seed of revolution is repression. ~Woodrow T. Wilson http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (45)

May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice or virtue In the new laws, may torture not be allowed. ~Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-89)

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slave ~Nelson Mandela http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-127)

In America, the land of the permanent revolution, ulcers and cancer often become, for the men at the top, the contemporary equivalent of the guillotine. ~Ted Morgan http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-24)

History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-237)

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. ~Maya Angelou http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-29)

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (15)

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. ~Henry Ford http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-46)

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible. ~ Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-291)

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. ~Albert Camus http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-29)

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. ~Edmund Burke http://bryt.me/bx (11)

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. ~George Orwell http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-49)

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is To tell the truth. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (8)

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. ~Alexis de Tocqueville http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-128)

We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television. This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-451)

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas. ~Bill Hicks http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (27)

The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-219)

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. ~Che Guevara http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (4)

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. ~Martha Beck http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-71)

Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-364)

Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if children['s] normal interest is maintained or even aroused, they can do all kinds of things in ways we don't understand. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-483)

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century. ~Arthur Erickson http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-54)

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. ~Mary Wollstonecraft http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-41)

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. ~Joseph Conrad http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-94)

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-344)

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-160)

Revolution begins with the self, in the self. ~Toni Cade Bambara http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (37)

War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians. ~Chris Hedges http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (10)

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. ~Raoul Vaneigem http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-120)

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-130)

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. ~Jean Genet http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (0)

The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-16)

We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute best of our ability~ and this, this is more than enough. ~Sera Break http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-126)

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-119)

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. ~Rita Mae Brown http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (28)

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-80)

Everyone's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's really an easy way: Stop participating in it. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx (1)

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. ~Irving Babbitt http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-13)

Sadism dominates the culture. It runs like an electric current through reality television and trash-talk programs, is at the core of pornography, and fuels the compliant, corporate collective. Corporatism is about crushing the capacity for moral choice and diminishing the individual to force him or her into an ostensibly harmonious collective. This hyper masculinity has its logical fruition in Abu Ghraib, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and our lack of compassion for our homeless, our poor, the mentally ill, the unemployed, and the sick. We accept the system handed to us and seek to find a comfortable place within it. We retreat into the narrow, confined ghettos created for us and shut our eyes to the deadly superstructure of the corporate state. ~Chris Hedges http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-633)

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. ~Barbara Tuchman http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (1)

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-144)

Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the same planet. They talk that way, but do they mean it? We should remind them that the words of the Declaration [of Independence] apply not only to people in this country, but also to people all over the world. People everywhere have the same right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When the government becomes destructive of that, then it is patriotic to dissent and to criticize - to do what we always praise and call heroic when we look upon the dissenters and critics in totalitarian countries who dare to speak out. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-523)

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us. ~Georg Buchner http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (26)

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx (7)

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals. ~Nick Clooney http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-54)

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-104)

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. ~Saint Francis de Sales http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-86)

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-54)

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act. ~Christopher Dawson http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-110)

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. ~John Boyd Orr http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-47)

The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger conflict that the two parties jointly wage against large numbers of Americans who are represented by neither party and against powerless millions around the world." ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-176)

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. ~Woodrow Wilson http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (25)

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people. ~James Lee Burke http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-50)

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-23)

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-254)

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. ~Dario Fo http://bryt.me/bx (6)

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti http://bryt.me/bx (14)

In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-108)

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock. ~Chris Hedges http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-363)

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (6)

The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-1)

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. ~Huey Newton http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (24)

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-63)

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution revolution is but thought carried into action. ~Emma Goldman http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (9)

As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them, or finally those who do battle for us and how we should respond to it all. We will never discover who we are. We will fail to confront the capacity we all have for violence. ~Chris Hedges http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-245)

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx (7)

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. ~David Bohm http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-91)

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (33)

There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory and that reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and also on gross levels of perception. ~Charlene Spretnak http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-238)

How it is we have so much information, but knows so little? ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (28)

If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If we had to stand over the mangled corpses of schoolchildren killed in Afghanistan and listen to the wails of their parents, we would not be able to repeat cliches we use to justify war. This is why war is carefully sanitized. This is why we are given war's perverse and dark thrill but are spared from seeing war's consequences. The mythic visions of war keep it heroic and entertaining The wounded, the crippled, and the dead are, in this great charade, swiftly carted offstage. They are war's refuse. We do not see them. We do not hear them. They are doomed, like wandering spirits, to float around the edges of our consciousness, ignored, even reviled. The message they tell is too painful for us to hear. We prefer to celebrate ourselves and our nation by imbibing the myths of glory, honor, patriotism, and heroism, words that in combat become empty and meaningless. ~Chris Hedges http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-861)

And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-46)

The war against working people should be understood to be a real war. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business class. And they have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except they don't want anybody else to know about it. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-153)

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-86)

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx (7)

Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers. ~Chris Hedges http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-156)

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-5)

I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-66)

In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb. ~Chris Hedges http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-296)

By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. ~Ben Franklin http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-50)

Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For the first time Bolivia is becoming democratic. So it's therefore bitterly hated by the West, which despises democracy, because it's much too dangerous. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-178)

It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently. ~Chris Hedges http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-102)

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel http://bryt.me/bx (2)

The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is minimal, has come increasingly to color the modern world of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. ~Chris Hedges http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-112)

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-31)

There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-189)

Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception. ~Chris Hedges http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-358)

The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe. ~Albert Schweitzer http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-272)

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-79)

We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power. ~Chris Hedges http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-389)

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-119)

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished. It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-541)

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~Robert F. Kennedy http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-294)

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die -but asleep! ~Joseph Joubert http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-78)

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster'; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-593)

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are! ~Alfred De Musset http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-245)

I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lie, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-389)

The words consent of the governed have become an empty phrase. Our textbooks on political science and economics are obsolete. Our nation has been hijacked by oligarchs, corporations, and a narrow, selfish, political, and economic elite, a small and privileged group that governs, and often steals, on behalf of moneyed interests. This elite, in the name of patriotism and democracy, in the name of all the values that were once part of the American system and defined the Protestant work ethic, has systematically destroyed our manufacturing sector, looted the treasury, corrupted our democracy, and trashed the financial system. During this plundering we remained passive, mesmerized by the enticing shadows on the wall, assured our tickets to success, prosperity, and happiness were waiting around the corner. ~Chris Hedges http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-686)

The mode of living which is founded upon a total harmlessness towards all creatures or [in case of actual necessity] upon a minimum of such harm, is the highest morality. ~Hinduism http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-40)

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. ~Albert Einstein http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-78)

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-31)

Have benevolence towards all living beings. ~Jainism http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (49)

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. ~Abbie Hoffman http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-31)

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-87)

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo http://bryt.me/bx (11)

A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner security. ~Albert Einstein http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-554)

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (25)

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss. ~Black Elk http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-46)

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-216)

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. ~Tom Robbins http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (34)

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~Albert Einstein via @BryantMcGill (1)

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance. ~Lakota Proverb http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (35)

In war, good guys always become bad guys. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (47)

The poor steal because they're needy; the rich steal because they're greedy. ~Sophia Stewart http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (9)

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn. ~Jack Kerouac http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-90)

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-391)

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident. ~Arthur Schopenhauer http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-19)

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. ~Aristotle http://bryt.me/bx (13)

Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth. ~Saint Augustine http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (5)

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-38)

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson http://bryt.me/bx (5)

Great doubt: great awakening; little doubt: little awakening; no doubt: no awakening. ~Zen Mantra http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (4)

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-54)

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. ~Mahatma Gandhi http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (17)

The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and poor, the racism, the use of victims against one another, the lack of resources of the underclass to speak out, the endless "reforms" that changed little. Dostoevski once said: 'The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.' It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fact, they did. The rich did not have to commit crimes to get what they wanted; the laws were on their side. But when the rich did commit crimes, they often were not prosecuted, and if they were they could get out on bail, hire clever lawyers, get better treatment from judges. Somehow, the jails ended up full of poor black people. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-804)

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. ~Robert F. Kennedy http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (20)

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-127)

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 common sense. ~Buddha http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-19)

He who looks outside dreams. He who looks within, awakens. ~Jung http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (37)

The commercial media help citizens feel as if they are successful and have met these aspirations, even if they have not. They tend to neglect reality (they don't run stories about how life is hard, fame and fortune elusive, hopes disappointed) and instead celebrate idealized identities - those that, in a commodity culture, revolve around the acquisition of status, money, fame and power, or at least the illusion of these things. The media, in other words, assist the commercial culture in need creation, prompting consumers to want things they don't need or have never really considered wanting. And catering to these needs, largely implanted by advertisers and the corporate culture, is a very profitable business. A major part of the commercial media revolves around selling consumers images and techniques to actualizethemselves, or offering seductive forms of escape through entertainment and spectacle. News is filtered into the mix, but actual news is not the predominant concern of the commercial media. ~Chris Hedges http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-888)

Why should we cherish 'objectivity', as if ideas were innocent, as if they don't serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be objective if that means telling the truth as we see it, not concealing information that may be embarrassing to our point of view. But we don't want to be objective if it means pretending that ideas don't play a part in the social struggles of our time, that we don't take sides in those struggles. Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests - war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism - and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-744)

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. ~Leo Tolstoy http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (20)

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-2)

The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth. Truth has a power of its own. Art has a power of its own. That age-old lesson - that everything we do matters - is the meaning of the people's struggle here in the United States and everywhere. A poem can inspire a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution. Civil disobedience can arouse people and provoke us to think, when we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress. We live in a beautiful country. But people who have no respect for human life, freedom, or justice have taken it over. It is now up to all of us to take it back. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-703)

Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-287)

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-318)

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met. ~Noam Chomsky http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-77)

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ~Robertson Davies http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (25)

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (23)

The argument that there are just wars often rests on the social system of the nation engaging in war. It is supposed that if a 'liberal' state is at war with a 'totalitarian' state, then the war is justified. The beneficent nature of a government was assumed to give rightness to the wars it wages. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt were liberals, which gave credence to their words exalting the two world wars, just as the liberalism of Truman made going into Korea more acceptable and the idealism of Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society gave an early glow of righteousness to the war in Vietnam. What the experience of Athens suggests is that a nation may be relatively liberal at home and yet totally ruthless abroad. Indeed, it may more easily enlist its population in cruelty to others by pointing to the advantages at home. An entire nation is made into mercenaries, being paid with a bit of democracy at home for participating in the destruction of life abroad. ~Howard Zinn http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-860)

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. ~Rita Mae Brown http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (8)

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ~John Kenneth Galbraith http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (1)

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, mono medicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity. ~Thomas Stephen Szasz http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-268)

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ~Thomas J. Watson Jr. http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-85)

A prison becomes a home when you have the key. ~George Sterling http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (38)

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-109)

There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone. ~Norah Vincent http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-12)

Sophistication is upscale conformity. ~James Richardson http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (46)

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? ~Henry David Thoreau http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-169)

What puzzled me was why I seemed to be so troubled by all these irregularities and exceptions to major rules while others blithely marched ahead. ~Catherine Gildiner http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-25)

The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. ~George Eliot http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-75)

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever. ~George Orwell http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (9)

The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermo-nuclear weapons systems and soft-drink commercials coexist in an over lit realm ruled by advertising and pseudo-events, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century - sex and paranoiaIn a sense, pornography is the most political form of fiction, dealing with how we use and exploit each other, in the most urgent and ruthless way. ~J.G. Ballard http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-492)

So, you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television's a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business. So if you want the Truth, go to God! Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth. But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house. And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's gonna win. We'll tell you any s--t you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds. We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness. You maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion. So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I am speaking to you now. Turn them off! ~Howard Beale (Peter Finch) http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-1488)

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. ~Pat Conroy http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (18)

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the end, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway. ~Mother Teresa http://bryt.me/bx via @BryantMcGill (-629)