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"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." -- Horace Mann "Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible." -- Russell Baker "If anything is sacred the human body is sacred." -- Walt Whitman "Civilization is the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort." -- Jose Ortega "In a world where there is a wealth of information, there is often a poverty of attention." -- Ken Mehlman "How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder. But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?" -- Adin Ballou, The Non-Resistant, 1845 "When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?" -- Eleanor Roosevelt "The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity." -- George Bernard Shaw "Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring." -- The Nuremberg Tribunal 1945-1946 "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking. The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind." -- Albert Einstein "Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; these are its sign, and note and character." -- Robert Browning "The best things and best people rise out of their separateness. I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise." -- Robert Frost "Barbarism: time in that the men only killed themselves one for one." -- Sofocleto "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." -- Wendell Berry "We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own." -- Cesar Chavez "A boil on one's neck interests one more than forty earthquakes in Africa." -- Dale Carnegie "To maintain a high position requires the skill of a harlequin. It is an abnormality that any man should long tower above his fellows." -- Elbert Hubbard "Life is mostly froth and bubble, but two things stand like stone, kindness in another's trouble and courage in your own." -- Princess Diana