"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." Albert Einstein

 

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

 

"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral." Dante Alighieri

 

"Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings." Heinrich Heine

 

"They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness." John Milton

 

"In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King

 

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win." Mahatma Gandhi

 

"Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities." Voltaire

 

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." Howard Zinn

 

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." Dalai Lama

 

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘it's as plain as the nose on your face.’

But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?” Isaac Asimov