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Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

—Joseph Stalin, 1934

Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

—Laozi, c. 500 BC

Punishment is a sort of medicine.

—Aristotle, c. 340 BC

Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!

—John Barbour, 1375

A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.

—Jane Austen, 1816

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967

When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.

—Antiphanes, c. 350 BC

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

—Immanuel Kant, 1784

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

That which is evil is soon learned. 

—John Ray, 1670

As man disappears from sight, the land remains.

—Maori proverb

Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.

—Barbara Walters, 1975