Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1847A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCMen argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyPeople will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCRecreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your calling, and not to glut yourselves with them.
—Thomas Gouge, 1672