“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.”<...

“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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“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

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

— Albert Camus

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

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

— Victor Hugo

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

— Simone Weil

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

— Immanuel Kant

“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

— Anne Tyler

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“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

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

— Edward R. Murrow

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Miguel de Unamuno