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The words of those who changed the world: thinkers, scientists, writers and statesmen.

432 quotes

Justice

Beware of shedding blood and of making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.

Saladin, 1137–1193

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell, 1903–1950

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell, 1903–1950

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.

Franz Kafka, 1883–1924

The best way to avenge yourself is not to be like the wrongdoer.

Marcus Aurelius, 121–180

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.

Confucius, 551–479 BC

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato, 428–348 BC

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712–1778

Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue that springs from strength of character.

Baruch Spinoza, 1632–1677

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Confucius, 551–479 BC

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant, 1724–1804

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King Jr., 1929–1968

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