Top Quotes for Today
Paradigms of Actual Wisdom
Selected by Thomas Ulatowski
“‘Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud’ is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.”
“A wise man ought not to desire to inhabit that country where men have more authority than laws.”
“Where law ends, there tyranny begins.”
“He that rebels against reason is a real rebel.”
“Our aim is to persuade. We adopt the means of non-violence because our end is a community at peace with itself.”
“We must be careful not to permit ourselves to be moved by personal prejudices or religious bigotry.”
“Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking.”
“For good people to do evil -- that takes religion.”
“When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.”
“You can't say that civilization don't advance ...in every war they kill you in a new way.”
“The priest is always in alliance with the despot.”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“To love truth for truth's sake is the seed-plot of all other virtues.”
“War remains the decisive human failure.”
“I speak of peace ...as the necessary rational end of rational men.”
“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”