Tom Shakespeare

I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

Flattery is like a cigarette – it’s all right as long as you don’t inhale.

Adlai Stevenson

There is only one thing worse in the world than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Oscar Wilde

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but the most foolish of men know that the only true, though a far slower, revolution is that which each begins and perfects on himself.

Thomas Carlyle

All men woukld be tyrants if they could.

Daniel Defoe

We us teach the masses clearly what we have received from them confusedly.

Mao Tse-Tung

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong, but always by the strength of the weak.

Karl Marx

I don’t know how radical you are, or how radical I am, I am certainly not radical enough. One can never be radical enough, one must always try to be as radical as life itself.

Lenin

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Abbie Hoffman

Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, ‘Grow, grow.’

The Talmud