"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

“To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.”
― René Descartes

"The tradition of all dead generations weighs like an nightmare on the brains of the living."
― Karl Marx

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.”
― John Locke

“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”
― Gary L. Francione

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
― Adam Smith

"The landlord, qua landlord, performs no function in the economy of industry or of food production. He is a rent receiver; that, and nothing more. Were the landlord to be abolished, the soil and the people who till it would still remain, and the disappearance of the landowner would pass almost unnoticed. So too with the capitalist."
― Keir Hardie, From Serfdom to Socialism