Anyone who’s never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.
—John Osborne, 1956
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People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCTo make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic proverbI cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970He who travels by sea is nothing but a worm on a piece of wood, a trifle in the midst of a powerful creation. The waters play about with him at will, and no one but God can help him.
—Muhammad as-Saffar, 1846