- Jean Monnet: People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.
- Socrates: A good decision is based on knowledge.
- Narrator: Fear-free knowledge and hope build awareness, to forge together a different future of human dimensions.
- Narrator: Money doesn't vanish into thin air, it goes into someone's pocket.
- Moni Ovadia: If I choose to live a modest life, I'm a free man. If I'm forced to live a modest life, I'm a slave.
- Narrator: Fear and Hope: those who hold power use fear to impose themselves and hope to legitimize themselves.
- Thucydides: Our form of government is called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few.
- Plato: The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
- Edmund Burke: The Age of Chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.