( A list of some of my favorite quotes)
Even society as a whole, a nation, or all existing societies put together, are not owners of the Earth. They are merely its occupants, its users; and like good caretakers, they must hand it down improved to subsequent generations.
-Marx, Capital, Vol I

The rich are tolerable only so long as their gains appear to bear some relation to roughly what they have contributed to society. John Maynard Keynes

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"
- Einstein

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. -----Thomas Paine----

"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"The only thing for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
----- Edmund Burke


Master the toughest opponent you face in achieving your goal......Your Own State of Mind!
- Charles Austin, So High Sports & Fitness

All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

When the power of love is greater then love of power the world will know peace...anonymous

There are few things in life that are not only good for you both physically and spiritually, but can also bring you great joy and pleasure. Hiking is one of them.

The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe.
In the end, Religion will kill us all.
-- Ed Krebs

As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air-however slight-lest we become unwilling victims of the darkness. ~Justice William O. Douglas

euskara edozen txoriri eder bere kabia....every bird thinks its own nest is the best...Basque saying

Tomorrow when I die, do not come to me to cry, nor look for me in the ground, I am the wind of freedom. Ernesto Che Guevara

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Nietzsche

...I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people.... We have gone there to conquer, not to to redeem...I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. --Mark Twain (talking about occupation of Philippins)

A regime which provides human beigns no deep reasons to care about one another cannot long preserve its legitimacy. -- Sennett