Ibn Khaldun

“The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage”. –Ibn Khaldun

Desiderius Erasmus

“You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn”. –Desiderius Erasmus

Philo

“A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial”. –Philo

John Heywood

“When all candels be out, all cats be grey”. –John Heywood

Immanuel Kant

“Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee”. –Immanuel Kant

Mahatma Gandhi

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs”. –Mahatma Gandhi

William Arthur Ward

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails”. –William Arthur Ward

Henry Liddon

“The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance”. –Henry Liddon

Apuleius

“Familiarity breeds contempt, but privacy excites interest”. –Apuleius

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“They think democracy — I used to say ‘damn the democracy’, because it’s not a stable government”. –Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Friedrich Klopstock

“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave”. –Friedrich Klopstock

eden ahbez

“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see, it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters”. –eden ahbez

Kabir

“Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive prophets, when critically examined, turn out to be false”. –Kabir

Pythagoras

“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil”. –Pythagoras

Muhammad

“Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers”. –Muhammad

Sam Kinison

“The Russians haven’t been to the moon. You know why? Because they’re space pussies… You really want to impress us? Bring us back our FLAG, asshole!” –Sam Kinison

Shams Tabrizi

“There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much”. –Shams Tabrizi

Henri de Lubac

“It is not always charity, alas, which has grown greater, or which has become more enlightened: it is often faith, the taste for the things of eternity, which has grown less. Injustice and violence are still reigning; but they are now in the service of degraded passions”. –Henri de Lubac

Zoroaster

“A reflective, contented mind is the best possession”. –Zoroaster

Martin Niemöller

“We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced — and remain convinced now — that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world”. –Martin Niemöller

Abu Bakr

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives”. –Abu Bakr

Confucius

“To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous”. –Confucius

Robert G. Ingersoll

“The burning enthusiasm, the quenchless zeal of the early church have gone, never, never to return. The ceremonies remain, but the ancient faith is fading out of the human heart. The worn-out arguments fail to convince, and denunciations that once blanched the faces of a race, excite us only in derision and disgust. As time rolls on, the miracles grow mean and small, and the evidences our fathers thought conclusive utterly fail to satisfy us”. –Robert G. Ingersoll

Jesus Christ

“You shall know truth, and the truth shall set you free”. –Jesus Christ

Giordano Bruno

“Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it”. –Giordano Bruno

Yogananda

“There are always two forces warring against each other within us”. –Yogananda

Shunryu Suzuki

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few”. –Shunryu Suzuki

Soren Kierkegaard

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use”. –Soren Kierkegaard

Diogenes

“The mob is the mother of tyrants”. –Diogenes

Sri Aurobindo

“All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion”. –Sri Aurobindo

Voltaire

“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture for wild beasts to fight in”. –Voltaire

Jerome

“Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, ‘Why do you not practice what you preach?’”. –Jerome

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see”. –Arthur Schopenhauer

Pope John Paul II

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded”. –Pope John Paul II

Francis Bacon

“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover truth”. –Francis Bacon

Benjamin Jowett

“Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door”. –Benjamin Jowett

Graham Greene

“A petty reason, perhaps, why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction”. –Graham Greene

Corneliu Codreanu

“The first and fiercest punishment ought to fall first on the traitor, second on the enemy”. –Corneliu Codreanu

Walter Kaufmann

“The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains”. –Walter Kaufmann

Aristotle

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms”. –Aristotle

Charles Kingsley

“Science frees us in many ways… from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming”. –Charles Kingsley

Meister Eckhart

“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake”. –Meister Eckhart

Marco Polo

“If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings; the whole of the Christians — and throw in the Saracens to boot — they would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world”. –Marco Polo

G.K. Chesterton

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance”. –G.K. Chesterton

William Cowper

“Regions Cæsar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they”. –William Cowper

L. Ron Hubbard

“You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion”. –L. Ron Hubbard

Ahmed Yassin

“We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland”. –Ahmed Yassin

Leo Tolstoy

“The more is given, the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work, the more their poverty will increase”. –Leo Tolstoy

William James

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor”. –William James

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity”. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ruhollah Khomeini

“We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world”. –Ruhollah Khomeini

Aleister Crowley

“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous, and menacing. Its overshadowing formlessness obsesses the mind. The way to beat an enemy is to define him clearly, to analyze and measure him. Once an idea is intelligently grasped, it ceases to threaten the mind with the terrors of the unknown”. –Aleister Crowley

Martin Luther King

“Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s Will, and He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land”. –Martin Luther King

Laozi

“Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. He who knows has no wide learning; he who has wide learning does not know”. –Laozi

John Calvin

“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels”. –John Calvin

Julius Cæsar

“Men willingly believe what they wish”. –Julius Cæsar

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The ultimate test of a moral society is in the kind of world it leaves to its children”. –Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Thomas Aquinas

“By nature, all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments”. –Thomas Aquinas

Martin Luther

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”. –Martin Luther

Anton LaVey

“Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is based on love”. –Anton LaVey

Augustus Cæsar

“Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young”. –Augustus Cæsar