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I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.

—Chris Rock, 2008

No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.

—Bessie Smith, 1926

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

When arms speak, the laws are silent.

—Cicero, 52 BC

The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.

—Leviticus, c. 600 BC

It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

—Helen MacInnes, 1963

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.

—Louis Brandeis, 1928

Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.

—Theognis, c. 550 BC

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.

—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

—Edmund Burke, 1796

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

No one’s serious at seventeen.

—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870