"Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all"
- Billy Bragg, ur Internationalen
"Glädje är ett av de mest iögonfallande kännetecknen för Sovjetunionen"
- Stalin
"Vi lever, inte som vi önskar, men som vi kan"
- Mencius
”Let me say only this much to the moral issue involved: Suppose Germany had developed two bombs before we had any bombs. And suppose Germany had dropped one bomb, say, on Rochester and the other on Buffalo, and then having run out of bombs she would have lost the war. Can anyone doubt that we would then have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and that we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them?”
- Leó Szilárd
"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes… All of this, all of this was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars."
- Sinclair, Babylon 5
- Ymir, vaddå bara ett?