It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: mankind Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For, as wolves and tigers gorge themselves with flesh and lick their gory chops, so do nations gorge themselves with human victims, not in detail, but in masses, by wholesale. —Henry C. Wright More about this quote Tags: war suffering viciousness gore Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality. —Linda Blandford More about this quote Tags: justice reality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that have made it possible for evil to triumph. —Haile Selassie More about this quote Tags: justice silence indifference evil inaction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
American foreign policy issues largely from a domestic mill of competing forces. If the forces are not there competing to cause us to do the right thing, invariably nothing right happens. —Randall Robinson More about this quote Tags: America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre. —Edward Dahlberg More about this quote Tags: americans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, and promotions. Looking back on it, I feel that I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents. —Smedley Butler More about this quote Tags: honor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service in the country's most agile military force, the Marines. I served in all ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. . . . —Smedley Butler More about this quote Tags: capitalism business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: intelligence imbeciles Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is disgracefully managed; one hardly knows to whom to complain. —Ronald Firbank More about this quote Tags: complaining management irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What good shall I do today? What good have I done today? —questions asked by Benjamin Franklin first thing in the morning and before going to sleep More about this quote Tags: good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The important thing is that when you come to understand something, you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go. —Sister Helen Prejean More about this quote Tags: action understanding work need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile. —Alice Walker More about this quote Tags: hope heroism tragedy shame heroes the world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A lot of you cared, just not enough. —Jay Asher More about this quote Tags: enough care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How different my own activism would be if every time something happened, I asked myself, "What would I do if this was my family? —Bushra Rehman More about this quote Tags: activism family Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email