"In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of tao, every day something is dropped." - Lao Tzu
"Kill a man, one is a murderer; kill a million, a conqueror; kill them all, a God." ~Jean Rostand
"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights." ~Desmond Tutu
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." -Diane Ackerman
"It is not enough to have free speech. People must learn to speak freely." -Christopher Hitchens
“The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.” -Thomas Sowell