"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."
          — Benjamin Franklin

"To rely on the wisdom of the people in power is the worst thing you can do."
          — Howard Zinn (quoted in Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Apr. 2004)

"The whole world is responsible for these murders, and a day will come that we say to the world, 'You supported Americans who killed us.'"
          — Anonymous Iraqi (quoted by Ali al-Fadhily, 10 July 2007)

"War is the tool of small-minded scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed."
          — John Cory

"History does not repeat itself, but it delights in patterns and symmetries."
          — Stephen Kinzer

"The higher up the tree the monkey climbs, the more all you can see of the monkey is his ass."
          — Haitian Proverb

"history is studded with unreported holocausts"
          — Author unknown

"In regard to cruelties committed in the name of a free society, some are guilty, while all are responsible."
          — Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

"One of the dirty little ironies of war is that it matters less who wins the war than where it was fought."
          — Ron David (Arabs & Israel for Beginners)

"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

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
          — Mark Twain

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wearing Mickey Mouse ears and sporting a Happy Face button."
          — madman (internet name, real name unknown)

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
          — Martin Luther King Jr.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results."
          — Author unknown (often attributed to Albert Einstein)

"Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water!"
          — Albert Einstein

"[W]hen others bear the costs of mistakes, the incentives favour self-delusion. A system that socialises losses and privatises gains is doomed to mismanage risk."
          — Joseph E. Stiglitz

"And the servants of (Allah) most gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say, 'Peace!'"
          — The Holy Qur'an 25:63 (translation of meaning by Abdullah Yusuf Ali)

"I've long since accepted that being an activist and a writer, futile though it may be, is who I am. The ship may be going down, but like the orchestra on the Titanic, I keep playing."
          — Sandy Leon Vest

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
          — Mark Twain

"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."
          — Mark Twain

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
          — George Orwell (Animal Farm)

"The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."
          — Albert Einstein

"The established order is never as secure and impervious to change as those who preside over it believe it to be."
          — Jim Wallis

"Assuredly the creation of the heavens and the earth is a greater (matter) than the creation of men: Yet most men understand not."
          — Quran 40:57

"Greed and stupidity make a lethal cocktail."
          — Dave Jorgenson (quoted in Empire of the Beetle)

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