"The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.”  -- Teilhard de Chardin

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide."  --Abraham Lincoln

"History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends."  --Mark Twain

“The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose.”  --J.B.S. Haldane

“What is above is like what is below, and what is below is like that which is above. To make the miracle of the one thing.”  --Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus

“There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise.”  --Hannah Arendt

“We are free to change the world and to start something new in it.  --Hannah Arendt

"War is the greatest failure of humanity. There is no future in destruction, but in fraternity. Peace is not only the absence of war; it is the construction of justice."  --Pope Francis

“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."  --Ursula K. Le Guin

“We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope.”  --James Baldwin

“Does a flower blooming in an uninhabited wood have no value?”  --Lyle L. Simpson (2011)

"We should always be willing to compromise with the rational. The rational isn’t what we are dealing with today. And if we don’t understand that, we are lost."  --Chris Tackett

“You can’t compromise with people who view opposition as evil and believe they are on a mission from God. White Christian Nationalism has to be defeated. There is no middle ground.”

 “There is no compromising with a lion when it is literally about to eat you.”

“[S]truggle does not always lead to victory, but without struggle not only can there be no victory, but there cannot even be elementary self-respect.”  --Boris Kagarlitsky

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”  --Margaret Mead

“I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools.”   --Thomas Paine

“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.”  --Edward Abbey

“Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.”-- Vincent Van Gogh

 

“I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large out of focus monster “  --Mitch Hedberg

“I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools.”  --Thomas Paine

“The great political criminals must be exposed and exposed especially to laughter. They are not great political criminals, but people who permitted great political crimes, which is something entirely different ... If the ruling classes permit a small crook to become a great crook, he is not entitled to a privileged position in our view of history. That is, the fact that he became a great crook and that what he does has great consequences does not add to his stature.”  --Hannah Arendt