ThoughtForTheDay

Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation. — Kofi Annan ...

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. — Pope Francis ...

Civilisation has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think. — GK Chesterton ...

The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. — Anne Applebaum ...

We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration. — Bill Clinton ...

The growing independence of voters has been proven by the votes in every presidential election. — Franklin D Roosevelt ...

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality. — Helen Clark ...

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. — Gerald R Ford ...

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows. — Frank Herbert ...

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. — Leo Tolstoy ...

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

The power of population is greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. — Thomas Malthus ...

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. — Mark Twain ...

Make fair agreements and stick to them. — Confucius ...

Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing. — Donald Trump ...

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising. — John Stuart Mill ...

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbours. — Sun Tzu ...

An important part of our diplomacy is that people take our words seriously. — George W Bush ...

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. — Thomas Jefferson ...

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. — John F. Kennedy ...

Being a good police officer is one of the most difficult, dangerous, idealistic jobs in the world. — Thomas Hauser ...

In fact, the world needs more nerds. — Ben Bernanke ...

If it’s wrong when they do it, it’s wrong when we do it. — Noam Chomsky ...

Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. — Henry David Thoreau ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war. — George Santayana ...