The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
Murray Bookchin
To be wealthy and honoured in an unjust society is a disgrace
Confucius
Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be “apolitical” is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.
Rebecca Solnit
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
Malcolm X
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings
Ursula K. Le Guin
The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
Che Guevara
No rights without duties, and equally no duties without rights
L'internationale
"Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."
Karl Marx
Freedom is merely privilege extended
unless enjoyed by one and all
L’Internationale
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Emma Goldman
The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
Christopher Hitchens
Nothing prevents the amoral process of natural selection from evolving a brain with genuine big-hearted emotions.
Steven Pinker
Public opinion is often wrong. Mob opinion is almost always wrong. Religious opinion is wrong by definition.
Christopher Hitchens
The best thing that can happen to a human being is to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.
Karl Popper
All life is problem solving.
Karl Popper
All evils are caused by lack of knowledge.
David Deutsch
Prediction without explanation is prophecy.
David Deutsch
All things are impermanent. Death comes without warning. This body too will be a corpse.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
The problem is not enjoyment; the problem is attachment.
Tilopa
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle