Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859
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To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
—Federico Fellini, c. 1950Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.
—British naval saying, c. 1800Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverb