No real friendship without absolute liberty.
—George Sand, 1866
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943What, 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, 1855What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCThe greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
—Robert Frost, 1939We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
—Anthony Burgess, 1964I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963