If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy Parker
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BCAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
—Jeremy Bentham, c. 1832It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958