Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

— Paulo Freire

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

— Victor Hugo

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

— Bill Watterson

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Thus, the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

— Eleanor Roosevelt