Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839
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If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCBusiness? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThe friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666Who hears the fishes when they cry?
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCI have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BC