Relevant Quotes

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.“
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Only when the last tree has died, and the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money.”
-19th century Cree Indian proverb

“The old appeals to racial sexual religious chauvinism and to rabid nationalist fervour are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time.”
-Carl Sagan

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
-Carl Sagan

“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
-Carl Sagan

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
-Carl Sagan

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.“
-R. Buckminster Fuller

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We must become the change we want to see in the world.“
-Mohandas Gandhi

“It is the action, not the fruit of the action, that is important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there will be any fruit. But that does not mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.“
-Mohandas Gandhi

“Whatever you do will seem insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
-Mohandas Gandhi

“People often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I did not have it in the beginning.“
-Mohandas Gandhi

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
-Mohandas Gandhi

“Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.”
-Mohandas Gandhi

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it…always.”
-Mohandas Gandhi

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.“
-Mohandas Gandhi

“The only difference between person and person all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?“
-Mohandas Gandhi

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.”
-Mohandas Gandhi

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.“
-Mohandas Gandhi

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
-Mohandas Gandhi

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.“
-Mohandas Gandhi

“The earth provides enough to satisfy everyone’s needs, but not everyone’s greed.”
-Mohandas Gandhi

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
-Mohandas Gandhi

“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.“
-Mohandas Gandhi

“No one can ride on the back of a person unless it is bent.”
-Mohandas Gandhi

“They cannot take our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
-Mohandas Gandhi

“Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed. Immediately when the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, its power is gone.“
-Mohandas Gandhi

“I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to humankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.”
-Mohandas Gandhi

“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.”
-Mohandas Gandhi

“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
-Mohandas Gandhi

“The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.“
-Mohandas Gandhi

“Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.”
-Cassius J. Keyser

“There is no shortcut to truth, no way to gain knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of the scientific method.“
-Karl Pearson