Quotes

When the King puts the poet on the payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet. — Arabic proverb

I imagine in the future there will be a million little things that will save us. — Pete Seeger

This is the view that led Theodore Roosevelt to assert that submitting to America's will was "the prerequisite condition to the moral and material advance of the people who dwell in the darker corners of the earth." It convinced Woodrow Wilson that the US needed to dominate Latin Americans so it could "teach them to elect good men." It propelled Dwight Eisenhower to overthrow democratic governments in Iran and Guatemala, ultimately plunging both countries into brutal dictatorship. More recently, it pulled Jimmy Carter into Afghanistan and George W Bush into Iraq, with devastating consequences for American power and security. — Stephen Kinzer

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn

In response to critics who label him a Marxist, Pope Francis responds: No, my critique of capitalism is not because I'm a Marxist—it's because I'm a Christian. Since his election last March, the pope has been offering a critique of what he has called "unfettered capitalism" and the "idolatry of money." Just days after the papal conclave, the new pope declared, "Oh, how I would like a poor Church for the poor," and in May he slammed the global financial system for "tyrannizing the poor" and turning humans into expendable consumer goods. And he has consistently been articulating the critique ever since. But it was the pope's more recent comments that really freaked some people out—and even drew the labels "radical" and "Marxist" from detractors. In his recent apostolic exhortation called Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis wrote: "As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world's problems or, for that matter, to any problems." — Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone lolling about in an emotionally satisfying faith is repugnant to me. — Flannery O’Connor

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a different kind of prayer without ceasing; it is longing. Whatever you may be doing, if you long for the day of everlasting rest do not cease praying. If you do not wish to cease praying, then do not cease your longing. Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail. — St. Augustine

When you see a mosquito land on your testicles you suddenly realize there are ways to solve problems without using violence. — anonymous