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The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbThe appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbA shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCCalamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
—Federico Fellini, c. 1950It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852