The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889
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We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1915