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Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

—Janis Joplin, 1972

I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

—Louisa May Alcott, 1863

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

—Shimon Peres, 1995

A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.

—Hesiod, c. 700 BC

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

—Frederick Douglass, 1855

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

—Molière, 1666

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1849

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

—Rebecca West, 1959

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

Revolutions are always verbose.

—Leon Trotsky, 1933

I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!

—Willa Cather, 1915