Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BC
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Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
—Margaret Atwood, 1976I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.
—Orson Welles, 1953A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCI want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCSo long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950