If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

George Santayana

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

Swami Vivekananda

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius

A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.

Plutarch