"One summer evening, she told us of women in ancient greece, who had withheld their bodies from their husbands as long as they pursued war.  That, she believed, was probably the only effective way to end strife among men."

— Una Spenser, Ahab's Wife or, The Star Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

— Salvor Hardin, Foundation by Isaac Asimov

"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."

— Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Dune by Frank Herbert

"What the O.C. Bible should've said is: 'Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.'"

— Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Dune by Frank Herbert

"Critics of Esperanto often claim that the International Language just cannot have the 'culture' so evident in the old-fashioned national tongues.  If by 'culture' these critics mean the centuries of ethnocentricity, bigotry, and hatred of foreigners, then perhaps they are right."

— Joseph Conroy, Beginner's Esperanto