Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.Noam Chomsky
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John F. Kennedy
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.Winston Churchill
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.Victor Hugo
God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.Isaac Newton
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.Bernard Shaw
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.Salman Rushdie
