It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

–Bill Watterson, comic strip artist (b.1958)

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn.

–Rod Serling, (1924-1975)

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

–Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (1783-1842)

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

–Charles de Lint, writer (Dec 1951)

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

-Haile Selassie, regent of Ethiopia (1892-1975)