"Those in power can kill one, two or three roses. But they'll never be able to stop the arrival of spring."
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Men" 1790

"I'd really love to meet this God who seemingly laughs at the misery of everyone not eligible for his miracles."
Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)

"I tried to talk with God to no avail.
Calling Him in and out of nowhere.
Said if You won't save me,
please don't waste my time."
Oasis (Falling Down)

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone."
"Be it a rock or a grain of sand, in water they sink as the same."
Oldboy (2003)

"We buy things we don't need
With money we don't have
To impress people we don't like."
Fight Club (1999)

"The religious world is but the reflex of the real world"
Karl Marx, "Das Kapital" 1867

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."
Karl Marx, "Thesen über Feuerbach" 1845

"The anti‐Semite has chosen hate because hate is a faith; at the outset he has chosen to devaluate words and reasons. How entirely at ease he feels as a result. How futile and frivolous discussions about the rights of the Jew appear to him. He has placed himself on other ground from the beginning. If out of courtesy he consents for a moment to defend his point of view, he lends himself but does not give himself. He tries simply to project his intuitive certainty onto the plane of discourse."
Jean-Paul Sartre "Anti-Semite and Jew" 1945

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
Martin Luther King Jr. in a Letter from Birmingham Jail 1963

"I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom."
Noam Chomsky "Language and Politics" 1988

"A form of political behaviour marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
Robert Paxton about fascism in: "The Anatomy of Fascism"

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
Martin Niemöller (there are quite some vatiations, but i like this one the most)