“A teacher affects eternity; [s]he can never tell where [her]his influence stops.” — Henry Brooks Adams …

“Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.” — Oscar Wilde …

“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.” — Sigmund Freud …

“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.” — Sitting Bull …

“What is called ‘capitalism’is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life.” — Noam Chomsky …

“The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes …

“When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.” — Alica Adams …

“Were men but strong and wise,
Honest as Grant, and calm,
War would be left to the red and black ants,
And the happy world disarm.”

— Herman Melville …

“Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.” — Aristotle …

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” — Erich Fromm …