It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Aristotle

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

Anne Nicol Gaylor

The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently

David Graeber

Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization

Peter Kropotkin

The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.

James Baldwin

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