Quotations / Motivation

Show me the man, I will show you the Rule.  - Anonymous

[Meaning: Laws are applied depending on person's power and influence, i.e. lack of equality before law.]

Show me the man, I will show you the Crime.  - Lavrentiy Beria (Head of Soviet secret police under Joseph Stalin)

[Meaning: Oppressive govt can use law to target anyone it wants.]

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants  -  Isaac Newton

[Meaning: Credit that we often give to one person, is actually due to hard work done by his predecessors.]

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely  -  Lord Acton (1834–1902) (British historian)

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.   - John Lennon

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love. While violence is practiced in broad daylight.   - John Lennon

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.   - Martin Luther King Jr.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. -  Thomas Jefferson / Howard Zinn

Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent, it fosters it. -  Amal Clooney