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- Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Garvey
- Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
- The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
- Robert M. Pirsig
- In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), The Third Man, 1949
- In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)
- Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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