r/quotes • u/MappingTheTerritory • Oct 23 '25

Social / Political Justice “If Jesus were alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.” - Kurt Vonnegut

4.0k Upvotes
301 comments

r/quotes • u/Rebe11ion_Lies • Jul 04 '26

Hope / Optimism “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.” - Ronald Reagan

1.6k Upvotes
172 comments

r/quotes • u/AmericanBornWuhaner • Mar 05 '26

Humor / Wit "I did not dedicate my life to advocating for women and girls just so that I could be lectured by a bunch of pedophile protectors." — Hillary Rodham Clinton

1.3k Upvotes
58 comments

r/quotes • u/gabagoo3 • Sep 11 '25

Social / Political Justice “We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us — the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.” - Terrance McKenna

1.2k Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/AvniAhuja • Nov 13 '25

Social / Political Justice “Maybe if we underpaid politicians and overpaid teachers, there would be smarter people and less stupid laws.” ― Morgan Freeman

1.0k Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/Rebe11ion_Lies • Jul 17 '26

Philosophy / Ethics “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.“ - Theodore Roosevelt

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r/quotes • u/NicolasCageFan492 • Jul 28 '26

Social / Political Justice “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - FDR

998 Upvotes
33 comments

r/quotes • u/James_Fortis • Oct 07 '25

Philosophy / Ethics "Most people do not realize the unspeakable cruelty suffered by animals on our factory farms. And some who know, do not really care. People have said to me that, after all, the animals are bred for food – as though this means that they are no longer sentient beings..." - Dr. Jane Goodall (RIP)

924 Upvotes
36 comments

r/quotes • u/One-Incident3208 • Nov 22 '25

Social / Political Justice "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." - George Orwell. "Why I Write", 1946

912 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/Thisisamen • Oct 25 '25

Misc / Unclassified “If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.” — Mark Twain

911 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/Running_Mustard • Sep 05 '25

Life / Wisdom “A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both and deserve neither” —Thomas Jefferson

895 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/einarengvig • Dec 07 '25

Social / Political Justice "Once you've read history you'll never stop wanting to beat the oligarchs to death with your bare hands" -Anthony Bourdain

853 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/Secret-Membership • Sep 08 '25

Life / Wisdom "A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke." Søren Kierkegaard

800 Upvotes
5 comments

r/quotes • u/Running_Mustard • Sep 07 '25

Philosophy / Ethics “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” –Chief Seattle

808 Upvotes
25 comments

r/quotes • u/Ralph--Hinkley • Feb 25 '26

Social / Political Justice "You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany, or Turkey, or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American." -Ronald Reagan

765 Upvotes
62 comments

r/quotes • u/[deleted] • Jan 30 '26

Life / Wisdom "It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milk man, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race." - Karl Stojka Auschwitz survivor

728 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/HappenBreeze • Nov 18 '25

Life / Wisdom "You know how you can tell the difference between a masked cop and a vigilante? Me neither." Laurie Blake, Watchmen

623 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • Oct 11 '25

Life / Wisdom “Why have kings no pity on their people? Because they never expect to be ordinary men. Why are the rich so hard on the poor? Because they have no fear of becoming poor. Why do the nobles look down upon the people? Because a nobleman will never be one of the lower classes. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

606 Upvotes
11 comments

r/quotes • u/Ralph--Hinkley • Sep 18 '25

Social / Political Justice "Comedy doesn't change the world, but it's a bellwether. We're the banana peel in the coal mine. When a society is under threat, comedians are the ones who get sent away first." -Jon Stewart

582 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/Top_Guidance_9855 • Oct 12 '25

Social / Political Justice "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." —Malcolm X

584 Upvotes
13 comments

r/quotes • u/northband • Jan 28 '26

Social / Political Justice "Auschwitz did not fall from the sky. Auschwitz happened in small steps. Evil happens in small steps" - Marian Turski Auschwitz survivor

555 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/titz4tat • Nov 15 '25

Technology / Future "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." ~ Frank Herbert, Dune

550 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/Mother_Ad_3561 • Sep 23 '25

Philosophy / Ethics The best description of modern American conservative politics comes from a quote from Gore Vidal - “it’s not enough to succeed. Others must fail”

532 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/[deleted] • Oct 15 '25

Technology / Future "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Frank Herbert.

526 Upvotes
7 comments

r/quotes • u/follower148 • Sep 04 '25

Social / Political Justice If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat their women. —Abdul Ghaffar Khan

523 Upvotes
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