Inflation is taxation without legislation.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein

When you recognize or experience the truth about yourself you automatically feel love, because love is a quality of your true consciousness and true ideas.

Tae Yun Kim

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

the Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all Churches, has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom of sin, death, and hell; so that not even antichrist, if he were to come, could devise any addition to its wickedness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

John Middleton Murry

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Max Lerner

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Salman Rushdie

I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.

William Lyon Phelps

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.

Robertson Davies

It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others. In this sense, the Organization is first of all their Organization and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so.

Dag Hammarskjold

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Abraham Lincoln