“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

— George Orwell

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”

— Karl Popper

“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

— Bertrand Russell

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours.”

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“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

— Leo Rosten

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”

— Edward R. Murrow

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

— Colette

“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.”<...

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“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.”

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“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was t...

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein