He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.Nelson Mandela
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.Plato
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.Plato