Quotes

"repetitio est mater studiorum" (Latin: repetition is the mother of learning)

"Good wine is a necessity of life for me." -- Thomas Jefferson

"To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it." -- George Bernard Shaw (or possibly G. K. Chesterton)

"Labor should not be sold like merchandise but offered as a gift to the community." -- Che Guevara

"The first step toward a sustainable sense of success is taking pride in the value of our contributions to others rather than taking pride in the value of our possessions." -- Gifford Pinchot

“Activism is my rent for living on this planet.” -- Alice Walker

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

Eat what you enjoy / Ride twelve thousand miles per year / You will not get fat -- Kent Peterson's Diet Haiku

"You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere." -Shevek, in Ursula LeGuin?'s novel The Dispossessed

"All forms of discrimination have their particular characteristics but they share in common the commodification of the sentient "other". In that sense, they are all the same." -- Gary Francione

"To kill an animal is not too far from killing a human." -- Nigel Walker, chicken farmer [1]

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion. -- Hal Abelson

"The corporation is an externalizing machine (moving its operating costs to external organizations and people), in the same way that a shark is a killing machine." - Robert Monks, a former GOP candidate for Senate from Maine.

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral." -- Henry David Thoreau from his essay Civil Disobedience

"You don't come when the car is attacking us, only when we're attacking the car." -- Tim Robbins to New York City police officer (in the movie "Noise")

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart." -- Iris Murdoch, ''The Red and the Green"

"I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings." -- Cesar Chavez

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others. When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. -- Abraham Lincoln