Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878
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All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCNothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BCIf I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCHe makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819