Quotations

Some quotes from famous people in history, which still applies to today's political climate.

For the religious fanatics, fundamentalist Christians (or religious wrongs as I call them) :
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662)

For all good people in the world who are silent :
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797)

For all who discrimiate, whether by sex, religion, race, sexual orientation, etc :
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

Sad to say, the world will never learn from its mistakes.