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- Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
- Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940)
- Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.
- Penn Jillette (1955 - ), NPR interview
- Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Each man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
- Ramakrishna (1836 - 1886)
- I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger.
- Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
- Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
- Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
- You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
- Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...
- Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969), On The Road, 1957
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