Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938
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I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986It is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night.
—Homer, c. 750 BCEducation is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.
—Charles Darwin, 1871When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”
—Edgar Watson Howe, 1911You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915