Below are a bunch of random quotes I've found that I enjoy. I hope that you, too, enjoy them.

"Youth can not know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it is to be young."

~ Albus Dumbledore

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

~ Jackie Robinson

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

~ Thorin Oakenshield

"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife."

~ John Dewey

"Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process."

~ John Dewey again

"We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience."

~ still John Dewey

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

~ Paulo Friere

"The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!"

~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that."

~ Peter Kropotkin

"It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake."

~ Kropotkin again

"Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization"

~ Still Kropotkin

"If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

~ Murry Bookchin

"There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things."

~ Bookchin again

"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children."

~ GK Chesterton

"What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone."

~ Theodore Roosevelt

"People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about."

~ FDR

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

~ FDR again

"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."

~ Charles Darwin

"The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance."

~ Theodosius Dobzhansky

"Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest."

~ Dobzhansky again

"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."

~ Ursula K. LeGuin

"The creative adult is the child who has survived."

~ LeGuin again

"Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass."

~ More LeGuin

"A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now."

- Twitter Proverb

Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

~ Thomas Paine

"Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruits in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between men, and their beliefs—in religion, literature, colleges, and schools—democracy in all public and private life, and in the army and navy."

~ Walt Whitman

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free men."

~ Dwight Eisenhower

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.”

~ Enrique Peñalosa

"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."

~ Nelson Mandela

"Headphones are the top hats of our age - we take them off for people we respect"

~ Wes Kennison, Professor of Humanities

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

~ G. K. Chesterton again

"In this world there are butterflies and there are flowers. It is the butterflies job is to fly around and come back and tell the flower what it has seen."

~ Trevor Noah's Grandmother

“The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.”

~ John Dewey once more (can you tell I like John Dewey?)

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"Go get naked and run around in the quad and have U.P. chase you. That sounds like more fun than studying anything for 5 hours."

~ Dr. Gregg Hartvigsen, Professor of Ecology

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit."

~ Ancient Greek Proverb

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”

~ (Falsely attributed to) Marcus Aurelius

"When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man.”

~ The Epic of Gilgamesh