What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

There's only one proper way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet, of the last battle, of the last war.

General George Patton

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

Taylor Hanson

If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the id

Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals

Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy

Amit Ray

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

Fidel Castro

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.

Arthur Koestler

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

Thomas Jefferson

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Thomas Fuller

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Rick Warren

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

Woodrow Wilson

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

Criss Jami