Famous Quotes Part II

          This post is a collection of quotes, we can learn something with them, from many websites such as: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/ethics.html. The part I was published in June of 2012. You can see the first part in this link http://www.thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com.br/2012/06/vol-teac-xxiii-famous-quotes.html

" The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings."

                                       Albert Schweitzer

"Transparency and compliance with the law are factors of further development."

                                    Christian Von Wolff

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people, they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of liberty."                               
Thomas Jefferson

"The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the measure of participation."              
A.D.Benoist

"The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why puritanism was a destrutive force which oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy and fear.          

                                                        Anais Nin

"Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy."                  
Aldous Huxley

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who can not read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."                    Alvin Toffler

"Arguing that you do not care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you do not care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

                                              Edward Snowden

"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."                  
 John F. Kennedy

"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."                          Mahatma Gandhi

"Transparency is for governments and big companies, privacy is for individuals."

                                       Julian Assange

"What I am thinking about more these days is the importance of transparency, and the Jefferson's saying that he would rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press."                    
Esther Dyson

"Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."
Leonard Bernstein