One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977
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The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCWhen man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885