"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."
- John Wesley
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group."- Lillian Hellman
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."- William James
"We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race."- Cicero
"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
- Gloria Steinem
"Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route."- Elizabeth Kenny
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."
- Dorothy Thompson
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."- Buddha
"If you want to study yourself -- look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people -- look into your own heart."Fredrich von Schiller
"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."- Arthur Eddington
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
- Marcus Aurelius
"The most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."- Pema Chodron
"He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done."- Leonardo da Vinci
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
- Albert Einstein
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free."
- Clarence Darrow
"If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. This requires building economies with heart."- David Korten
"I think that one of our most important tasks is to convince others that there's nothing to fear in difference; that difference, in fact, is one of the healthiest and most invigorating of human characteristics without which life would become meaningless. Here lies the power of the liberal way: not in making the whole world Unitarian, but in helping ourselves and others to see some of the possibilities inherent in viewpoints other than one's own; in encouraging the free interchange of ideas; in welcoming fresh approaches to the problems of life; in urging the fullest, most vigorous use of critical self-examination."
- Adlai Stevenson
"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality."- Alexis Carrel
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."- Albert Einstein
"Put every great teacher together in a room, and they would agree about everything. Put their disciples in there and they would argue about everything."- Bruce Lee
"If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible."- Henry David Thoreau
"The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget."- Hazrat Inayat Khan
"Peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history."
- Andre Trocme
"Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form."
- Buddha
"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."- Paul Valery
"It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment."
- Elie Wiesel
"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."- Will Durant
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."- Aesop
"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives."- Albert Schweitzer
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."- Robert M. Hutchins
"I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."
- Kahlil Gibran
"Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."
- Edmund Burke
"It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong."- G. K. Chesterton
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself."- Norman Vincent Peale
"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."- James Thurber
"To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them."
- Hugh Prather
"It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief."
- Sigmond Freud
"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
- Jane Addams
"At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
- Johann Von Goethe
"Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice."
- Baruch Spinoza
"Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed."
- Corita Kent
"Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves."
- Bonaro W. Overstreet
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
- Carl Jung
"One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world."
- Ann Radcliffe
"Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are."
- Don Miguel Ruiz
"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
- Robert Green Ingersoll
"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. "
- Buddha
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