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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

An unjust law is no law at all.

Every act of censorship is an admission that the censor fears the argument.

Propaganda does not lie to you so much as it saves you the trouble of thinking.

Patriotism is loving your country, nationalism is needing an enemy to love it.

Globalisation made the world smaller for goods and larger for the people left behind.

Order is the silence in which the powerful are most comfortable.

We taught machines to imitate thought and now mistake the imitation for the thing itself.

Every innovation solves one problem by quietly creating three we have not yet named.

We built a library of everything and then forgot how to tell the shelves apart.

We are drowning in information and starving for the judgement to use it.

We mock the expert until the bridge sways, and then we want only the expert.

We automate the task and then discover the dignity was hidden inside the labour.

We built a civilisation that needs us to work and then forgot to ask what the work was for.

Money is a tool that obeys its owner and a master that owns the careless.

We let the world define success for us and then wonder why winning feels so empty.

We grant strangers our attention and then resent them for taking it.

We were promised that buying would fill the gap, and the gap is now the most profitable thing we own.

Fashion declares each season that what we owned last season was never quite enough.

The only constant in life is change.

We do not rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The thing we crave loses its shine the moment it becomes ours.

The family is the first place we learn both love and injury.

Every community draws a circle, and its warmth is measured by who is left standing outside it.

A culture reveals itself in how it treats the guest it did not invite.

The gift that demands gratitude was never freely given.

The most powerful influence is the kind we never notice shaping us.

A society that sells time saving devices has somehow ended up with less time, not more.

A culture that hides its dying in institutions has not conquered death, only outsourced it.

We have built whole industries on the promise of a happiness they are careful never to deliver.

We tell the young to find their purpose, then build an economy that needs them interchangeable.

A generation that strips the future for its own comfort calls the wreckage a legacy.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Religion is the opium of the people.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher that we expect our dinner, but from his regard to his own interest.

The medium is the message.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists.