"The ones who changed the world were never at peace with it. Peace is for those who have surrendered." — Friedrich Nietzsche 🌱📷

"Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander — and do not argue with a fool." — Aleksandr Pushkin 🌱📷

“When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists.” — Alexei Navalny 🌱📷

"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste." — Marcel Duchamp 🌱📷

Tonight's candle is the glow I left exactly five years ago. "You can never go home again — but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right." — Maya Angelou

"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country." — Alexis de Tocqueville 🌱📷

"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil." — Eric Hoffer 🌱📷

"The nature of democracy, authentically, is not simply supporting from the bleachers and saying, 'Gee I hope you win the game.' It's being on the field engaged in whatever large or small way possible." — William Greider 🌱📷

"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so." — Robert A. Heinlein 🌱📷

"Respect is like a mirror. Once it cracks, it never reflects the same again." — Ayoub Imilouane 🌱📷

"Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.' — James Fenton 🌱📷

"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true." — Carl Sagan 🌱📷

"There are only two kinds of humans: The righteous who believe themselves sinners, and the sinners who believe themselves righteous." — Blaise Pascal 🌱📷

"Our world is not divided by race, color, gender or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender or religion."'— Nelson Damasceno 🌱📷

"Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality." — Sheri S. Tepper 🌱📷

"Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor." — Cory Doctorow 🌱📷

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." — Dwight D. Eisenhower 🌱📷

"Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore." — Zora Neale Hurston 🌱📷

"A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent." — William Blake 🌱📷

"I defected from a totalitarian regime, and like hell am I going to be cowed again, and have to be careful about what I say. … Speaking out is the patriotic thing to do. When you see something wrong, don’t be afraid.” — Martina Navratilova 🌱📷

"Since 1789, no fundamentally new political ideas have emerged beyond the French Revolution's complex ideological package of liberty, equality and fraternity." — Yuval Noah Harari 🌱📷

"He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” — John Stuart Mil🌱📷

"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain." — Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5. 🌱📷

"To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight. Never stop fighting." — Elijah Cummings 🌱📷

"Any body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody." — Thomas Paine 🌱📷

"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up." — Lily Tomlin 🌱📷

"A people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please." — Hannah Arendt 🌱📷

"Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not bombs, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." — Robert A. Heinlein 🌱📷

"Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large; cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit." — Terrence McNally 🌱📷

“Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.” — James Bryce 🌱📷