Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972
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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, 1863Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCAnimals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819What, 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, 1855The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCThe friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666All 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, 1849Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbRevolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915