Stoic

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
-Plato

"What worries you, masters you."
-John Locke

“It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin

“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

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
-Leonardo da Vinci

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.”
-Octavia E. Butler

"What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law."
-Kurt Vonnegut

“I shall show you a love potion without a drug, without a herb; without the incantation of any sorceress: if you want to be loved, love.”
-Seneca

“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
-Leonardo da Vinci

“The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.”
-Marcus Aurelius

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it."
-Thucydides

"One of our two major parties is dominated by extremists dedicated to destroying the social contract, and the other party has been so enfeebled by two decades of collaboration with the donor class it can offer only feeble resistance to the forces that are devastating everyday people."
-Bill Moyers

“Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.”
-Aristophanes

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends."
-Henry A. Wallace

“For mankind, evil is injustice and cruelty and indifference to a neighbor’s trouble, while virtue is brotherly love and goodness and justice and beneficence and concern for the welfare of your neighbor.”
-Musonius Rufus

“All cruelty springs from weakness”
-Seneca

"The cause of the commoners is patently more just than that of the elites, for the latter wish to rule and oppress, while the former wish only not to be oppressed."
-Machiavelli

"Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions."
-Albert Einstein

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
-Philip K. Dick

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
-James Waterman Wise

"My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general, accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power...”
-René Descartes

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”
-Kurt Vonnegut

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
-William Faulkner

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
-Rebecca West

“The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.”
-Edward Gibbon