All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff
— Adolf Hitler
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist
— Edmund Burke
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all
— Aristotle
Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism
— Earl Warren
It seems to me it only takes a bit of thought to realize that if wars came out of human nature, out of a spontaneous urge to kill, then why is it that governments have to go to such tremendous lengths to mobilize the populations to go to war? It seems too obvious doesn't it? They really have to work at it. They have to dredge up an enormous number of reasons.
— Howard Zinn
I do not believe we should stand neutrally between good and evil, right and wrong, aggressor and victim
— Martin Bell BBC Correspondent
I have a dream that one day...children will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character
— Dr Martin Luther King Jnr
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance
— Winston Churchill
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds
— Bob Marley
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men
— Dr Martin Luther King Jnr
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; 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
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred
— Albert Einstein
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned
— Heinrich Heine
I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated
— Nelson Mandela
For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a hundred