People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.
—Hipponax, c. 550 BC
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The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
—LaoziThe most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928