Inner Peace

"Unless he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man himself will not find peace."

 - Albert Schweitzer

Respect

"The elders were wise. They knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans, too."

 - Chief Luther Standing Bear , Lakota Sioux

Credit

"Credit is the economic judgement on the morality of a man. In credit, man himself, instead of metal or paper, has become the mediator of exchange but not as a man, but as the existence of capital and interest. Human individuality, human morality, has itself become both an article of commerce and the form in which money exists. Instead of money, paper is my own personal being, my flesh and blood, my social value and status, the material body of the spirit of money."

- Karl Marx: Paris Manuscripts
as quoted by David McLellan in "Karl Marx, his life and thought" p.113

Rulers

"A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields the power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same."

- George Orwell, 1984, pg 187

The President

"How willingly would I exchange places today with the soldier who sleeps on the ground in the army of Potomac."

- Abraham Lincoln as quoted by Schuyler Colfax