“Organized Religion is like Organized Crime; it preys on peoples’ weakness, generates huge profits for its operators, and is almost impossible to eradicate.” — Mike Hermann …

“There is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” — David Brin …

“Action wedded to analysis becomes redemptive movement.” — Michael Eric Dyson from “Debating Race” …

“As much as the social conservatives might not like to hear it, there will be a time when your grandchildren say: ‘What was the argument with gay marriage? Who cares?'” — Jim Kolbe, the only openly gay Republican in Congress, a week before his retirement last year. …

“The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.” — Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy …

“All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.” — Bernard Berenson

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“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” — John W. Gardner

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“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.” — William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990 …

“There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.” –- Upton Sinclair …