What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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| — | Henry David Thoreau |
Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.
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| — | Howard Zinn in “Whom Will We Honor Memorial Day?” originally published on June 2, 1976 in the Boston Globe. Zinn’s biweekly column with the Globe was cancelled after this op-ed. |
The more a man becomes aware, through reflection, of his servile condition, the more indignant he becomes, the more the anarchist spirit of freedom, determination and action waxes inside him. That is true of every individual, man or woman, even though they may never have heard of the word “anarchism” before.
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| — | Nestor Makhno, The ABC of The Revolutionary Anarchist, 1932. |
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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| — | ― George Orwell in 1984 |
The confusions which occupy us arise when language is like an engine idling, not when it is doing its work.
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| — | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.
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When the great lord passes the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts.
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| — | ETHIOPIAN PROVERB quoted in James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance |
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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| — | Charles Bukowski |
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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| — | ~ Martin Luther King, Jr |
