A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000
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Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCOnce a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCHe who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.
—Elias Canetti, 1954Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborFire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942