A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000
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Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BCThe money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957What is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCWhat is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819One’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922No nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774