#ma

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people. They grow used to the unthinkable, and sometimes they may look back and even wonder when things changed. They will not find a day or a time or a place. Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it. ↗

— Charles Morgan

#change

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing. ↗

— David Baldacci

#change #civilization #detachment #journalism #mankind

If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in "The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization ↗

— Philip Mauro

#humanism #peace #change

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ↗

— George Orwell

#follows #four #freedom #granted #make

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#justifies #justify #long #may #means

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#dogma #freedom-of-thought #independent-thought #inspirational #politics

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#freedom #materialism #posessions #freedom

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#challenge #dismantle #domination #freedom #heirarchy

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#democracy #freedom #liberation #love #marxism

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom