Here are some wise words from wise people, selected to help us remember that other people in other hard times got through it. Well, most of them. Also here are words that remind us that human nature hasn’t changed and is unlikely to change in the near future. Feel free to post your favorite quotes and sayings in the comments.

“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” ~ Maximilien Robespierre

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” – Edmund Burke

“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.” ~ Harold Evans

“In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ~ George Orwell

“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‘I was wrong’.” ~ Sydney J. Harris

“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” ~ Aldous Huxley

“The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.” ~ William J. Clinton

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ~ H. L. Mencken