They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

Thabo Mbeki

The only victory over love is flight.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.

Steven Wright

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

Plato

There is no UFO and also there is no alien, at least not in common mind nor reference.

Toba Beta

I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you, my voice won't be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark.

Kevin Rudd

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

Billy Graham

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

Ally Condie

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Richard J. Daley

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

Pope Gregory VII

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

William Shakespeare

A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.

Thomas Jefferson