Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934
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He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
—Simon Hoggart, 1990O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BCThat obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.
—Francis Bacon, 1625It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
—Thucydides, 410 BCTraining is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963