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"We are not rich because of the things that we possess, but for what we can do without possessing them."
-Immanuel Kant
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."
-Karl Marx
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
-Dom Helder Camara
"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." - Satchel Paige
"Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."
-Ambrose Bierce
"f you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." -Albert Einstein
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." -Emma Goldman
"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do."
-Leo Tolstoy
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" -Mohandas Gandhi
"Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute and cannot unite-- but they all worship money."
-Mark Twain
"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost." -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Socialism is no more an evil word than Christianity. Socialism no more prescribed Joesph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve."
-Kurt Vonnegut
"I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
-Helen Keller
""Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality, as it is written: 'He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little.'" -1 Corinthians 8
"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently" -Rosa Luxemburg
"Therefore all things are common; and let not the rich claim more than the rest. To say therefore 'I have more than I need, why not enjoy?' is neither human nor proper."
-Clement of Alexandria
"The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life." -Dalai Lama
"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it."
-George Bernard Shaw
"The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot." - William Jennings Bryan
"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world."
-Eugene Debs
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