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- The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?
- Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832), philosopher and animal rights activist
- In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
- J. William Fulbright (1905 - )
- Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
- Eugene Ionesco (1909 - 1994)
- No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
- John Russell
- To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
- Alan Paton (1903 - 1988)
- The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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