The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

Freya Stark

It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that they recruited their members from this mass of apparently indifferent people whom all other parties had given up as too apathetic or too stupid for their attention. The result was that the majority of their membership consisted of people who never before had appeared on the political scene. This permitted the introduction of entirely new methods into political propaganda, and indifference to the arguments of political opponents; these movements not only placed themselves outside and against the party system as a whole, they found a membership that had never been reached, never been

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of To

We came here to serve not be served.

Source Unknown

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Pearl Buck, My Several Worlds, 1

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

James Bryce

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

John H. Patterson

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

Matt Stone

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

H. L. Mencken

We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.

Simon Mainwaring

Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.

Jimmie Davis