“The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.”
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Napoleon
2 quotes“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
Toni Morrison
2 quotes“All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allow”
Jon Stewart
1 quote“Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those people out - are.”
Victor Hugo
1 quote“They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need...”
Billy Graham
1 quote“We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate.”
Malcolm X
1 quote“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”
Warren Buffett
1 quote“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per c...”
Darwin
1 quote“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
Martin Luther King
1 quote“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is app...”
Wendell Berry
1 quote“You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.”
Desmond Tutu
1 quote“If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Michelle Obama
1 quote“There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.”