Food for Thought

Vol. 2, No. 3--April 13, 2005

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis

Sky is my father and earth my mother and even such a small creature as I finds an intimate place in its midst. That which extends throughout the universe, I regard as my body and that which directs the universe, I regard as my nature. All people are my brothers and sisters and all things are my companion.
Anonymous 11th century Chinese official

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

The one thing that Christ preached most about was pride, self-satisfaction, ego. When we do think we know the answers, that we are even endowed by God with the right answers, and anyone who disagrees with us is first of all wrong and secondly inferior-and in some extreme cases subhuman-then obviously that's a total gross distortion of what the faith I would describe means.
Jimmy Carter

When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always.
Mahatma Ghandi

This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Martin Luther King

Wealthfare -- the money government gives away to corporations and wealthy individuals -- costs us more than $815 billion a year. That's...more than four times what we spend on welfare for the poor.
Mark Zepezauer, Take the Rich Off Welfare

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