“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.” ~ Andre Gide “Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly.” ~ Henry Spencer “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~ Arthur C. Clarke “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi “What do they know - all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.” ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer “... human hatred against the breed of wolf is a product of fear of its pride, wisdom, perseverance and indomitability.” ~ Élysion “We have doomed the Wolf not for what it is, but for what we have deliberately and mistakenly perceived it to be.. the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer.. which is, in reality no more than a reflexed image of ourself.” ~ Farely Mowat “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” ~ Albert Einstein “War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength” ~ George Orwell; 1984 “Four legs good, two legs bad.” ~ George Orwell; Animal Farm “As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.” ~ George Orwell “Big Brother is watching you.” ~ George Orwell; 1984 “Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” ~ George Orwell “Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ~ George Orwell “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” ~ George Carlin “Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?” ~ George Carlin “I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.” ~ George Carlin “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ~ George Carlin “The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.” ~ Sir Richard Francis Burton “A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.” ~ James Feibleman “A cult is a religion with no political power.” ~ Tom Wolfe “With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” ~ Steven Weinberg “What you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys.” ~ Chief Dan George “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” ~ Sri Chinmoy Ghose “If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all.” ~ Noam Chomsky “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” ~ Mahatma Gandhi “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” ~ George Carlin “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” ~ George Carlin “I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.” ~ George Carlin “If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.” ~ George Carlin “Religion is just mind control.” ~ George Carlin “Knowledge is power.” ~ Sir Francis Bacon “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” ~ Galileo Galilei “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ~ George Orwell “I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I’m ‘bad’.” ~ Mike Fuhrman “What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.” ~ Chief Seattle “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” ~ Vladimir Lenin “Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, Law of the Jungle” ~ Rudyard Kipling “God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.” ~ Richard Dawkins “I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” ~ Richard Dawkins “We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” ~ Richard Dawkins “Perhaps it was the eyes of the wolf, measured, calm, knowing. Perhaps it was the intense sense of family. After all, wolves mate for life, are loyal partners, create hunting communities and demonstrate affectionate patience in pup rearing. Perhaps it was the rigid hierarchy of the packs. Each wolf had a place in the whole and yet retained his individual personality. Perhaps it was their great, romping, ridiculous sense of fun. Is it any wonder that the myths of many tribes characterize the wolves not as killers, but as teachers?” ~ unknown “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.” ~ Stephen Hawking “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi “The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions just a statistic.” ~ Josef Stalin “The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci “Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.” ~ Thomas Edison “In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.” ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer “Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.” ~ Helen Keller “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is a trait that is not known to the higher animals.” ~ Mark Twain “When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.” ~ Richard Dawkins “Life is a comedy to those who think, and a tragedy to those who feel.” ~ Horace Walpole “The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.” ~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry; The Little Prince “The simple things are the most extraordinary, but only a pure heart can recognize them.” ~ Paulo Coelho “Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.” ~ Cree Indian Proverb “Life without truth is not possible. Truth is perhaps life itself.” ~ Franz Kafka “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” ~ Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta; the founder of Buddhism “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” ~ Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta; the founder of Buddhism “That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.” ~ J. D. Salinger “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi “Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.” ~ Theodor W. Adorno “People know what they want because they know what other people want.” ~ Theodor W. Adorno “To you everything thats happening in the world appears phony, to be something other than what it really is, right?” ~ J. D. Salinger “In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ~ George Orwell “We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, ......can transform the world.” ~ Howard Zinn “the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.” ~ G-Man; Half-Life 2 “Those who give up freedom in the name of safety shall have neither” ~ Benjamin Franklin “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” ~ Anatole France “I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only I alone am able to see it.” ~ Dziga Vertov “For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?” ~ Fredric Jameson “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer “To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world ...” ~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry; The Little Prince