power

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
~ James Baldwin Biography - Fiction Writer, Essayist, Social Critic, 1924-1987

... The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.
~ Emma Goldman Biography - Anarchist, Feminist, Labor Advocate, 1869-1940

It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.
~ Cesar Estrada Chavez Biography - Farm Workers' Union Founder, Human Rights Activist

evil, ignorance & war

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. ~ Albert Camus: The Plague, Modern Library Edition, p. 120

War creates peace like hate creates love. ~ David L. Wilson

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. ~ Howard Thurman