“National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.”

―Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”

― Howard Zinn, On War

“The rich, being haughty, acted evilly; the poor, being poverty stricken, acted wickedly."

― Chris Harman, A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”

― Michael Parenti, Against Empire

“The slave who has a cruel master wishes for a kind one, and the slave who has a kind master wishes for freedom.”

―Michael Parenti, The Assasination of Julius Caesar