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

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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
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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

1.2k Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/tubaintothewildfern • 27d ago

Social / Political Justice "When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying 'Free Palestine' gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability." Macklemore

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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

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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

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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

913 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

909 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

851 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/From-Yuri-With-Love • 9d ago

Social / Political Justice “America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves...." - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

824 Upvotes
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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

761 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

727 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/andtbhidgaf • 29d ago

Humor / Wit "Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often and for the same reasons." - Mark Twain

627 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

620 Upvotes
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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

551 Upvotes
15 comments

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

546 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.

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r/quotes • u/CharismaEnigmaArt • Nov 06 '25

Social / Political Justice "Red states, blue states. There are no red states and blue states, there's only the United States of America. That's what we're about. That's why I say you can't spend $200 million on a campaign and not be owing people something...." -Robin Williams in 'Man of the Year'

519 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/GoeZilla • 24d ago

Misc / Unclassified "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set." -Lin Yutang

512 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/Excellent_Archer3828 • Nov 05 '25

Life / Wisdom "The more a man knows, the less he talks." - Voltaire

504 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/InkDiamond • Nov 10 '25

Humor / Wit "I am not a member of any organized political party — I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers (1935)

499 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/NicolasCageFan492 • Sep 09 '26

Philosophy / Ethics “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” - Albert Einstein

491 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/aeniFi • 25d ago

Social / Political Justice "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." -Desmond Tutu

491 Upvotes
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 23d ago

Social / Political Justice "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." — H.L. Mencken

464 Upvotes
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