Inspirational Quotes

Knowledge

"If our knowledge of the world is controlled by the media, then we live in a mediocrity."
~ Unknown

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
~ Albert Einstein

"A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, can never go back to its original dimensions."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant."
~ H. L. Mencken

"Never before have so many known so little about so much."
~ R. Roger Smith

Truth

"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts."
~ Al Kersha

"Truth does not contradict truth."
~ Elizer Zvi Zweifel

"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it."
~ John F. Kennedy

"Truth comes only to a prepared mind."
~ Unknown

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
~ Winston Churchill

Democracy

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
~ H.L. Mencken

"The People produce all the food, all the goods and all the services. In return, the People receive all the deficits, all the debts, all the bankruptcies, all the unemployment, all the poverty and all the taxes."
~ Confederations of Regions Party

How Evil Succeeds

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men."
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
~ Leonardo da Vinci

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
~ Edmund Burke

Power of the People

"When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"It is in the constitution for one reason and one reason only, so that the people of this nation can protect themselves from the tyranny and corruption of their politicians."
~ Thomas Jefferson - on Guns in the Constitution

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
~Henry David Thoreau

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."
~ Kurt Cobain

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
~ John F. Kennedy

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Your Call To Action

"The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage."
~ Thucydides

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
~ Annita Koddick

"You cannot escape the responsibilty of tomorrow by evading it today."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you."
~ William Irwin Thompson

Politics

"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."
~Jerry Garcia

"The People will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."
~ Abraham Lincoln

And from the minds of evil men (a wake up call!)...

"The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
~ Nazi Reich Marshall Hermann Goering - at the Nuremberg War Trials