Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. -- Oscar Wilde

You will be honored for contributing your time and skill to a worthy cause.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

You enjoy the company of other people.

Unfortunately, a preoccupation with technical size, scale, and even artistry deflects our attention away from the most significant problems of technics -- notably, its ties with the ideals and social structures of freedom. -- Murray Bookchin

Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. -- Noam Chomsky

Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.

"You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?" "The famous scientific criminal, as famous among crooks as --" "My blushes, Watson," Holmes murmured, in a deprecating voice. "I was about to say 'as he is unknown to the public.'" -- A. Conan Doyle, "The Valley of Fear"

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. -- Malcolm X

Never will the anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia. -- Frederica Montseny