All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933
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One religion is as true as another.
—Robert Burton, 1621Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BC