We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. – Syrus

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. – Abraham Joshua Heschel