Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909
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The purest joy is to live without disguise, unconstrained by the ties of a grave reputation.
—Al-Hariri, c. 1108The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989